Effectiveness of Parents’ Psychological Empowerment Package on the Positive and Negative Emotions of the Adolescents with Inefficient Parent-Child Interaction

Abstract

The present study was conducted to codify parents’ psychological empowerment package and evaluate its effectiveness on the positive and negative emotions of adolescents with inefficient parent-child interaction. The research method of the present study was thematic analysis through a comparative method in the qualitative part and quasi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test, control group design, and two-month follow-up period in the quantitative part. The statistical population included adolescents with inefficient parent-child interaction in the city of Tehran who were selected through the purposive sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 20 people). The adolescents' parents in the experimental group received ten sessions of psychological empowerment package during two-and-a-half months. 4 people in the experimental group and 3 in the control group quit participating in the study. The applied questionnaires in this study included the parent-child relationship questionnaire (Fine, Moreland, Schwebel, 1983) and the positive and negative emotions questionnaire (Watson, Clark, Tellegen, 1988). The data from the study were analyzed through the mixed ANOVA method via SPSS23 statistical software. The results showed that the psychological empowerment package enjoys suitable content validity from the experts’ viewpoint. Moreover, this package has had an effect on the positive (F=67.56; Eta=0.64; P<0001) and negative emotions (F=51.37; Eta=0.61; P<0001) of adolescents with inefficient parent-child interaction. According to the findings of the present study, the psychological empowerment package can be used as an efficient method to increase positive emotions and decrease negative emotions in adolescents with inefficient parent-child interaction through employing mental flexibility, training normal parenting style, and emotional participation with the child.

Keywords

• psychological empowerment
• positive and negative emotions
• inefficient parent-child interaction