The Effect of Family-Centered Stress Management on Risky Behaviors among Girls

The present study aims to explore the effect of stress management training in mothers on risky behaviors among girls.

The research was practical and the method was a quasi-experimental including pre-test, posttest, experimental and control groups. The participants were 380 female students from a high school in Andishe, Shahriar in academic year 1398-1399 and 30 students were selected through average homogenization and split into two experimental and control groups. The students were asked to respond a pre-test which was a scale of risk-taking among Iranian adolescents designed by Mohamadi Ahmad Abadi and Heidari and they were supposed to answer again as the posttest after 10 sessions of stress management training. To analyze data, variance analysis was applied with a frequent measurement.

The findings indicates that the interactive effect of group × time on violence (F= 6/83, P= 0/001, h2= 0/336) is 0/01, for variables of sexual relationship and behavior (F= 3/45, P= 0/046, h2= 0/203) and relationship with opposite sex (F= 3/48, P= 0/045, h2= 0/205) was significantly 0/05.

Therefore, the family-centered stress management can enable us to prevent the risky behaviors in girls and increase the level of awareness in families.