Investigating the effectiveness of the combination package of Child's Personality Type and Parent child interaction therapy in reducing anxiety symptoms and thought and attention problems

Given that parents, as the closest people to the child, play the greatest role in the child's behavioral changes, and the greater their ability to manage anxiety problems and attention problems, the greater will be the reduction of disorders in their children. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of the combined package of parent-child interaction of Ayberg and Eldegri personality-oriented in reducing anxiety symptoms and problems of thinking and attention.

The method of this semi-experimental study is pre-test and post-test with a control group. The research population was all the mothers of children with attention problems and anxiety symptoms aged 7 to 10 years in Tehran, among whom 30 mothers were selected using available sampling method and randomly and with the formula of sample size for experimental research in two equal groups. (each group 15 people). The experimental group received 8 90-minute online sessions of Eyberg 1995 parent-child interaction training and personality-oriented parenting, and the control group did not receive any intervention.

The results of covariance analysis with the aim of investigating the effect of intervention on behavioral problems showed that the intervention package of Iberg parent-child interaction and personality-oriented parenting was effective in reducing anxiety symptoms and thinking and attention problems (p<0.01). The comparison of the obtained effect sizes showed that the intervention package has the greatest effect on anxiety with an Eta coefficient of 0.511, followed by thinking problems with an Eta coefficient of 0.443.

To analyze and analyze the data, descriptive information related to the research variables will be presented first, and then the assumptions of covariance analysis will be used to examine the results of the hypothesis test. It has meaning. In other words, there is a significant difference between the experimental group and the control group in terms of the aforementioned variables. It can be said that the parenting style is related to children's behavioral problems in a way that emphasizes the importance of the type of relationships within the family for childhood.