Effectiveness of Mothers' Psychological Empowerment Package on Behavioral Problems and Self-Esteem of Children

Nowadays, special attention has been paid to the preschool period, its lasting effects in all stages of life and the education of parents, especially mothers under 6 years old, in line with the positive changes and developments that occur in children. This research was conducted with the aim of the effectiveness of a mother's psychological empowerment on children's behavioral problems and self-esteem.

The research method was semi-experimental, pre-test, post-test and two-month follow-up with experimental and control groups. The research population consisted of mothers with children aged 4 to 6 years in Isfahan city in 2021, 30 of them were selected in the convenience method and were randomly replaced in two experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). The experimental group received the mother's empowerment package for 10 sessions of 90 minutes, and the control group did not receive any intervention during the research. The participants of both groups completed questionnaires of behavioral problems (Shahim and Yousefi, 2018) and self-esteem (Azizi Moghadam, 2018) in three stages. The data were analyzed by variance analysis with repeated measurements in SPSS-23 software.

The results of the repeated measures analysis of variance statistical method showed that the mother's empowerment program on behavioral problems (eta= 0.352, p< 0.001) and child's self-esteem (eta = 0.278, 0.001) p>) had a significant effect and the effectiveness of the training package remained in the follow-up stage (p>0.001).

Considering the effectiveness of the mother's psychological empowerment package training on children's behavioral problems and self-esteem, attention to this type of training is suggested to mothers, preschool centers, psychotherapists, and counselors in the field of child counseling and choosing the type of intervention for training parents.