The purpose of the study was twofold, first to create an
example of a parent training for parents of adolescents and second
to explore the effects of a parent training on different dimensions of
parent-adolescent relationships and communication skills of parents
of adolescents.
The participants of this study were the parents of 9th and 10th
grade adolescents from two different lycees in Ankara / METU
Foundation School and Deneme Lycee. 10 volunteer parents
(mothers or fathers) from METU Foundation School and 11 parents from Deneme Lycee participated in that study as the members of the
experimental group.
In this study, an experimental design with treatment and
control groups and 3 measurements (pre, post and follow up) was
used. The 5-session training for parents generally consisted of
activities aimed at developing their communication skills and their
relationships with their children. The program mainly focused on
social skills for parents to develop better communication and
improve the satisfaction of parents and also to help parents improve
their parenting skills.
Data were collected through qualitative and quantitative
methods. In order to assess the effects of training on parents,
instruments called Parent Success Indicator and Communication
Skills Evaluation Scale were used in the study. Moreover, an openended
evaluation form was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the
training. In order to explore the differences between experimental
and control groups, two way repeated measures of analysis of
variance was used. The results revealed no significant differences
between groups, however, the qualitative findings indicated that the
parent training in this study helped parents to develop positive
interaction with their children.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12606006/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 April 2005 |
| Creators | Ozeke Kocabas, Ezgi |
| Contributors | Akkok, Fusun |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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