The correlation between mothers’ knowledge of non-verbal communication on mother-child relationship

This study investigated the relationship between mothers’ knowledge of non-verbal communication and the relationship between mother and child.

The study’s population consisted of mothers having 3-6-year child in the 2015-2016 academic year. Pre-school institutions in the five districts of Shiraz were studying. The sample of the study consisted of 154 women, were selected by multistage cluster sampling. The method of the study was correlational.  The questionnaires of test of non-verbal cue knowledge (TONCK) and the scale of the relationship between parent-child (PCRS) were used for case studies. Data was analyzed by descriptive and analytical statistics using SPSS software.

The results showed that the mothers’ knowledge of non-verbal communication and overall positive mother-child relationship were not correlated. In addition, there was no significant correlation between mothers’ knowledge of non-verbal communication with subscales of the mother-child relationship, and mothers’ age and education.

The mothers’ knowledge of non-verbal communication and overall positive mother-child relationship were not correlated.