The Effect of Self-forgiveness Education on the Methods of Parenting and Positive and Negative Emotions

This research analyzes the effect of self-forgiveness education on the methods of parenting and positive and negative emotions on the Qom secondary school students in the school year 2014-2015. Using a trial pretest-posttest method with controlling group this paper studies the whole mother of the high school students of Qom as a statistical society. The sample research included 76 mothers of students from two governmental schools in Qom who were selected by the simple random sampling method. The participants filled out two questionnaire forms of Baumrind on parenting methods and positive and negative affinities of Watson and Clark as a pretest. Then, they were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group has been educated by self-forgiveness for eight sessions, and then, both groups filled out two questionnaire forms of parenting and positive and negative emotions as a posttest. Using Covariance statistical descriptive-analytical method, this paper shows that, self-forgiveness education has a positive effect on the authoritarian and the authoritative parenting process, but it does not have an effect on the negligent method. The findings also indicate that self-forgiveness education has a positive effect on the positive and negative emotions.