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The Effectiveness of the Respected Parents & Respected Children Parent Education Program for Mothers of Early School-age Children

학령 초기 자녀의 어머니를 대상으로 한 부모존경-자녀존중 부모교육 프로그램의 효과

  • 김민정 (남서울대학교 아동복지학과) ;
  • 도현심 (이화여자대학교 아동학과) ;
  • 신나나 (이화여자대학교 아동학과) ;
  • 김수지 (이화여자대학교 아동학과) ;
  • 송승민 (수원대학교 아동가족복지학과) ;
  • 신정희 (이화여자대학교 아동학과) ;
  • 강하라 (이화여자대학교 아동학과)
  • Received : 2015.03.31
  • Accepted : 2015.06.06
  • Published : 2015.06.30
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Abstract

The present study employed a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design model in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the Respected Parents & Respected Children (RPRC) parent education program for mothers of early school-age children. Ninety mothers were randomly assigned to an intervention (n=45) group or a control group (n=45). Mothers in the intervention group participated in 8 weekly sessions of the parent education program. After the termination of the program, the differences between pretest and posttest were analyzed in terms of both maternal parenting characteristics (i.e., parenting behavior, parenting efficacy, parenting stress, and co-parenting) and children's social competence. The results indicated that only in the intervention group, self-reported positive parenting characteristics were significantly improved and negative parenting characteristics were significantly decreased. There were no significant effects of the program on children's social competence as rated by the mothers. These findings suggest that the RPRC parent education program is effective in changing parenting characteristics known as crucial predictors of child outcomes.

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