The effect of teaching positive parenting program on behavioral problems and responsibility taking among aggressive elementary students

The purpose of this study was examining the effect of positive parenting program to parents on enhancing the sense of responsibility of aggressive students in elementary school and decreasing their behavioral problems.The research method was a semi-experimental and statistical population of this study was all parents with elementary school aggressive children, from Lord Egan town in 2016. From this population by a single-stage sampling method, sample consisted of Parents 30 aggressive elementary students were selected and randomly assigned into an experimental group and a control group. The Sanders' positive parenting program (triple P) was taught to the experimental parents during 8 sessions of 120 minutes. The study instruments included Overt and Relational Aggression Questionnaire of School Children (ORA), Revised Behavior Problem Checklist (RBPC), and California Psychological Inventory-RE (CPI-RE).The results of MANCOVA indicated that positive parenting program had a significant effect on decreasing aggressiveness and behavioral problems and increasing the level of responsibility taking among aggressive elementary students.The results of the present study showed that teaching positive parenting program to parents led to a decrease in behavioral problems among aggressive elementary students and an increase in the level of their responsibility taking.