Taḥqīqāt-i ̒Ulūm-i Raftārī (Jan 2024)
Effectiveness of the Coping Power program on Family Problem Solving, Parental Authority, Social Information Processing, and Emotional Awareness of Maladjusted Children Aged 9-13
Abstract
Aim and Background: Children and teenagers are of a particular importance in every society, and a care for their mental health makes them healthy both mentally and physically, and enable them to play their social parts better in the future. The purpose of this research is to determine the effectiveness of the coping power program on family problem solving, parental authority, and social information processing and emotional awareness of maladjusted children aged 9-13 Methods and Materials: The method of semi experimentation, with a pretest-post test scheme and a judge group, was a 45 day follow up; the statistical population comprised all the irregulars of 9-13 in the school year 1402-1401 of isfahan; and out of this statistical population, 40 students and parents who were qualified for the purpose of research, were accidentally put into two testing groups and one judge group, each group containing 20 people. The research tools included Rutter's Teacher Form Behavioral Questionnaire (1967), Ahmadi et al.'s Family Problem Solving (2008), Jan Buri's Parental Authority (1991), Turkaspa and Bryan's Social Information Processing (1994), and Reif et al.'s Emotional Awareness (2007). In addition, the coping power program of Luckman. (2003) was implemented during 10 sessions of 60 minutes for parents and 10 sessions of 45 minutes for children. While the group did not receive a training certificate. The data were analyzed using Shapiro-Wilk tests and analysis of variance with repeated measures at a significance level of 5%. Findings: The results showed that the coping power program had a significant effect on family problems, parental authority, social information processing and emotional awareness (P<0.05). Conclusions: According to the findings of the research, it can be said that coping power program is suitable for maladjusted children
