The Effectiveness of Positive Parenting Skills Training on Parental Self-Efficacy and Children's Behavioral Problems in Female-Headed Households in City of Yazd

Many parents do not have sufficient knowledge of self parenting and children's behavioral problems do not have the skills to manage properly; If the correct teaching positive parenting skills to parents such problems can be reduced; therefore,The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of positive parenting skills training on parenting and behavioral problems in children of women heads of household efficacy city of Yazd.
Methody: This quasi-experimental study (pretest-posttest control group). The study population consisted of all female-headed households was the city of Yazd in 2015, among which 30 persons were selected using purposive sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (n=15 per group) were replaced. Educational intervention based on positive parenting skills training package Sanders for eight sessions for groups (45 minutes per session for two months) was applied. Parental self-efficacy questionnaire (1996) and Rutter behavioral problems questionnaire (1975) was used as pre-test and post-test. Using multivariate analysis of covariance data were analyzed in SPSS version 19.
According to the results, positive parenting skills and parental influences on self-efficacy, but have no effect on children's behavioral problems. (P It seems that positive parenting can be taught the technique of choice to increase parental self-employed women; But this method can not be used in children with behavior problems alone.