Comparing the effect of behavioral parenting training of mothers and social skilled training of children on Emotion regulation strategies and self-control dimensions in fourth grade students with oppositional defiant disorder

The aim of this study was the comparing the effect of behavioral parenting training of mothers and social skills training of children on Emotion regulation strategies and self-control dimensions in fourth-grade students with oppositional defiant disorder. The current research was semi-experimental and pre-test-post-test design and control group. The statistical population included fourth-grade male students and their mothers who had been referred to psychology clinics in Tehran's District 5 between August and September 2020. From the mentioned society, 45 participants were selected using the purposeful sampling method and randomly placed in two experimental and one control group. The experimental group sessions were 12 sessions of 90 minutes for each group. The instruments of this study included the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) and the Self-Control Questionnaire (CPSC). For analysis, analysis of multivariate covariance was used and for comparison, Benferoni analysis was used. The findings showed that in both experimental groups, the average post-test scores in adaptive emotion regulation strategies (effect size = 0.566), maladaptive (effect size = 0.701), and self-control dimensions (effect size = 0.633) compared to the pre-test has changed (P<0.05), but no significant difference was observed between these two methods on study variables and their dimensions (P>0.05). From these findings, it can be concluded that teaching parenting to mothers is as effective as teaching social skills to children on emotion regulation strategies and self-control dimensions of children with the oppositional defiant disorder.