The Effectiveness of Educational Parenting Skills on Mothers' Self-esteem
The Effectiveness of Educational Parenting Skills on Mothers' Self-esteem

Summary/Abstract: Parenting is one of the most challenging tasks of parents. Parents often have concerns about how to deal adequately with their children. On the other hand, self-esteem has been a factor in mental stress adjustment, and it has a great impact on the fields of family relationships and the parent-child relationship. Therefore, parenting education can be effective on levels of self-esteem. The present study was a pretest-posttest and control group educational intervention design that the sample consisted of 50 mothers of elementary school children who were selected from urban schools by multi-stage sampling. The instruments used in this study were researcher-made demographic questionnaires, Cooper Smith self-esteem questionnaire, and educational package for parenting skills of the Ministry of Health. Data were analyzed using SPSS software. For data analysis, variance analysis was used first, but due to lack of assumptions of analysis of variance, T-test was used. The results of t-test showed a significant difference between the scores compared to post-test and pre-test. Maternal parenting skills significantly increased the self-esteem of mothers in the experimental group compared to the control group, which indicates a positive effect of this intervention.

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