Investigation of the efficacy of the educational package of the parental behavior model based on the lived experiences of parents with gifted children on the verbal profile of preschool children with moderate intelligence

The study of intelligence, its theoretical basics, and new theories of it refer to enriching the environment in different ways and its effect on increasing intelligence. in the meantime, the lack of research regarding the education of parents through the native package and its effect on children's intelligence was felt.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the parenting behavior model educational package based on the lived experiences of parents with gifted children on the verbal profile of preschool children with moderate intelligence.

This applied research was semi-experimental and was done with the help of a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The population of this research was parents and their children of preschool age in Arak from October 2020 to October 2021. Due to the spread of Corona virus, the research was conducted in a preschool center and parents and their children were divided into two groups of 10 people, experimental and control, with a random sampling method. for gathering the data, the Tehran-Stanford-Binet intelligence scale(Roid, 2000) was used, and then the parents of the experimental group received 13 one-hour online educational sessions. Then the post-test was performed on the preschoolers. The data were analyzed in SPSS version 26 with the help of the univariate covariance analysis model.

The results of data analysis showed that the scores of the experimental group in two intelligences, knowledge and quantitative reasoning, has been significant increase (p<0/05) and it did not have a significant effect on the intelligence of fluid reasoning, visual-spatial processing, and verbal working memory.

Based on the findings of this research, the parental behavior model educational package has increased the scores of knowledge and quantitative reasoning intelligences and it can be used for parenting training.