The effectiveness of the parenting program based on the lived experiences of mothers with hearing impaired children on emotion regulation

Abstract  Considering the many problems faced by mothers of children with hearing impairment and their vulnerability and emotional disorders, the need for research on the factors influencing the emotional regulation of this group of mothers in order to formulate effective intervention solutions seems necessary. The distinctive feature of this research is that it was conducted based on the main concerns of the audience of the program, i.e. mothers of deaf children, which can be understood and explain the experiences of mothers of deaf children.Research The current research method was mixed (qualitative and quantitative). The qualitative method was a phenomenological method that analyzed the lived experiences of mothers. The current research was quantitative in terms of purpose, practical in terms of the way of collecting information, a quasi-experimental experiment, with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the research in the qualitative part included all mothers with children with hearing loss in the cities of Sari and Miandorud. In the qualitative part, the purposeful sampling method was used until data saturation. The sampling method in the quantitative part was such that the number of 30 mothers with deaf children available, whose children studied in special education schools, were selected and then divided into two experimental groups (number of 15 people) and control group (15 people) were randomly divided. The research tool in the quantitative part was the emotion regulation questionnaire of Gratz and Romer (2004). The face and content validity of the said questionnaire was confirmed after the approval of ten professors in the field of psychology and measurement, and its reliability was calculated using the Cronbach's alpha method of 0.93. For data analysis SPSS 26 software was used. In the qualitative part, after an unstructured interview of mothers with children with hearing loss about their experiences in parenting their children, the corresponding protocol was formed and developed. According to the statistical results, there is a significant difference between the two experimental groups and the control group in the emotion regulation variable (sig=0.000, F=849/541). The method of parenting program training interventions based on the lived experiences of mothers with children with hearing impairment has an effect on emotion regulation.