Investigating the Effectiveness of Quranic Parenting Style on Self-Awareness of Primary School Students in Ghaemshahr in 2020-21

Parenting styles are one of the important issues that guarantee the comprehensive growth and self-awareness of children. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a Quranic parenting style on the self-awareness of children.

This case-control study was conducted by pre-test-post-test method. The statistical population included male and female sixth grade students of Ghaemshahr in the academic year 2021-22 with 2456 students. The sample size was determined 100 people (50 people of each gender) based on Cohen's table and cluster random method. The Fenigstein, Sher & Buss (1975) self-awareness questionnaire and the Quranic parenting training package developed by the researcher (1400) were used to collect data. Before training mothers, pre-test was performed among students of both groups. Then, the model of Quranic parenting was taught to the mothers of the case group in twelve 90-minute sessions during one month. After the training, the post-test was performed among the students of both groups. Data were analyzed by univariate analysis of covariance using SPSS v.22 software.

The findings showed that the mean scores of self-awareness of the students in the case group in the post-test were 10.12 points higher than the pre-test; But in the control group, slight changes (0.480 scores) were observed and the Quranic parenting style was 36.3% effective in students' self-awareness (ƞ2=0.363).

Increase of the mean scores of the post-test in case group compared to the control group, confirms the effectiveness of the educational intervention.