The effectiveness of teaching behavioral characteristics and cognitive development to the family and its effect on improving the behavior of anxious children

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching behavioral characteristics and cognitive development to the family and its effect on behavioral improvement in anxious children. The study of teaching behavioral characteristics and cognitive development of children in families is a topic that should be considered by all and action should be taken to improve and strengthen these characteristics. The present study was conducted in two parts. In the first part, the effect of teaching behavioral characteristics and cognitive development to families with anxious children and improving their anxious behavior was studied, and in the second part, the stability and effect of these trainings on reducing children's anxiety over time were examined. The present study is of experimental design research in terms of importance in the category of applied research and in terms of data collection. To conduct this study, first 60 anxious children were selected as a pretest through Akhenbach test, then the statistical samples were randomly divided into two groups of control and experimental, and after obtaining demographic information from both groups to One group of their parents was trained in cognitive development (based on Piaget theory) (experimental group) and the control group was not trained. Akhenbach test with anxiety component was taken as a post-test from both groups of children in the same family. Some time (3 months) after the end of the test results and the relevant training, the Achenbach test was taken again for the stability of the training over time. Descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation and demographic characteristics, etc. were used to analyze the research data, and inferential statistics such as analysis of covariance were used as a supplement. The results showed that teaching behavioral characteristics and cognitive development on improving children's behavior to families had a significant relationship with improving their children's anxiety. In the second part of the study, the sustainability of these trainings on reducing children's anxiety over time was also significant.