The Effect of the Educational Intervention of Positive and Safe Parenting Skills on the Psychological Well-being of Mothers with Aggressive Adolescents

Increasing the psychological well-being of mothers guarantees an increase in their performance in parenting and reduces the abnormal behaviors of their children.

This study aimed to investigate the effect of the educational intervention of positive and safe parenting skills on the psychological well-being of mothers with an aggressive adolescent girl.

The method of the present study was experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with the control group and a one-month follow-up test. The statistical population of mothers with an aggressive adolescent girl who studied at Bu Ali Sina High School located in district one of Tehran. Sampling among the volunteers was done by simple random and their assignment in experimental and control groups of 15 persons was done randomly with replacement. The experimental group received 8 sessions of 45 minutes of positive and safe parenting skills training intervention (Alipour, Aliakbari Dehkordi & Barghi Irani, 2018), but the control group did not receive any intervention. To collect data, Riff's psychological well-being scale (1989) and Bass and Perry's aggression scale (1992) were used. Data were analyzed using one-way repeated measures analysis of variance in SPSS software. The

The results of statistical analysis showed that the educational intervention of positive and safe parenting skills significantly increased the psychological well-being of mothers with aggressive adolescents in the experimental group compared to the control group in the post-test and follow-up stages.

Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that the use of educational intervention of positive and safe parenting skills can be tested as an effective psychological intervention to increase the psychological well-being of mothers with aggressive adolescents.