The effectiveness of triple-p (positive parenting program) on effective parenting and quality of child-parent relationship in mothers with adolescents

 umerous studies have been conducted on parenting and the quality of parent-child relationships, but research that neglects the effectiveness of a positive parenting program on effective parenting and the quality of parent-child relationships in mothers with adolescent has been neglected.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of the positive parenting program (Triple-P) on the effective parenting and quality of -parent-adolescent relationship in mothers with adolescents.

The research was semi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and follow-up with the control group. The population consisted of mothers with 13-15 aged adolescents in the years 2018 in Isfahan city. 16 subjects were randomly selected as a sample and randomly divided into experimental and control groups (8 subjects). The present research instruments are Alabamachr('39')s effective parenting questionnaire (1991), the parent-child relationship quality questionnaire (1983). And a positive parenting program (Larzer et al., 2016). Data analysis was performed by repeated analysis of variance.

Positive parenting program had a significant effect on effective parenting and the quality of parent-child relationship (P< 0/001).

Mothers who participated in the positive parenting program had an effective rate of parenting and the quality of the parent-child relationship increased.