emotion coaching

The emotional component of the relationship between parents and children plays an important role in the formation of problematic behaviors in children and adolescents and their mental health in general. The present study was conducted with the aim of explaining the causal model of parental meta-emotional philosophy based on emotional self-awareness, differentiation and existential anxiety. The study method was descriptive-correlation and structural equation model analysis. The statistical population included all the parents of Kermanshah city. A total of 201 parents were selected using the accessible method. The data collection tools were the Parental meta-emotion philosophy Scale, the Emotional Self-Awareness Scale, the Self-Differentiation Inventory - Short Form, and the Existential Concerns Questionnaire (Van Brugen et al., 2017). The validity of the tools was measured by using content validity in a qualitative method and reliability by internal consistency by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Data were analyzed using SPSS 21 and AMOS 21 software. The results showed that the direct paths of existential anxiety to meta-emotional philosophy; Differentiation to emotional self-awareness; and emotional self-awareness to meta-emotional philosophy, as well as the indirect path of differentiation to parental meta-emotional philosophy with the mediating role of emotional self-awareness is positive and significant. In other words, the results showed that parents who have higher differentiation have more emotional self-awareness and are more in emotion coaching in meta-emotional philosophy. This finding can be used in theoretical models related to the determinants of parent's emotion coaching or in psychological interventions to help parents to increase their emotion coaching.

Numerous studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of the parent-child interaction intervention program and the symptoms of separation anxiety disorder in children. However, research that has addressed the effectiveness of the parent-child interaction intervention program based on emotion coaching on symptoms of separation anxiety disorder has been overlooked.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the parent-child interaction intervention program based on emotion coaching on the symptoms of separation anxiety disorder in children.

Experimental research with pre-test-post-test design with Yood control group. The statistical population of the study included all female primary school girls in District 10(1282 person) in the academic year of 2019-2020. Thirty students were randomly selected for cluster sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (15 subjects). The research tools are: Measurement of Separation Anxiety Scale (Parent-Child Version, Han, Hajinlian, Essen, Wender and Pinkas, 2003) and Parent-Child Interactive Intervention Program Based on Emotional Coaching (Researcher Made, 2019). Data analysis was performed using multivariate and single variable covariance analysis (MANCOVA).

The parent-child interaction intervention program based on emotion coaching was significantly effective in reducing the fear of liberation, fear of loneliness, fear of disease and worry about the occurrence of dangerous events (P< 0/01).

Students who participated in the parent-child interaction intervention program based on emotion coaching had fewer symptoms of separation anxiety disorder.