Effects of the intervention program of parent - adolescent relationship on Intergenerational Interactions

Abstract

Family environment and parenting style has a great effect on personality development. Lack of information about adolescents’ development and parenting styles are challenges that parents encounter in their life, so a program including these two components is necessary. This study aims to examine the effect of an intervention program for improving the parent-adolescent relationship in improving the parent-youth relationship and parenting styles. The present study is a quasi-experimental design with the pre-post design. The sample includes 65 parents of preschool and primary school students in Tehran. The effectiveness of these workshops was evaluated by using Baumrind’s Parenting Style Scale and the Parent-Child Relationship Inventory. Results showed that in general intervention program for improving parent-adolescent relationship had a significant effect on parenting satisfaction, but not on other subscales (p<0.05). Child rearing satisfaction is a dynamic construct which relates to here and now, but five other subscales evaluate deeper and more static beliefs which have developed during the time and needs time to change.

Keywords

• parenting styles
• adolescence development
• parent-child relationship