Increasing Wellbeing through a Parenting Program: Role of Gender and Partnered Attendance

Autor/inn/en	Thomson, Samantha; Frydenberg, Erica; Deans, Jan; Liang, Rachel P-T
Titel	Increasing Wellbeing through a Parenting Program: Role of Gender and Partnered Attendance
Quelle	In: Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 32 (2015) 2, S.120-141 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0816-5122
DOI	10.1017/edp.2015.15
Schlagwörter	Parent Education; Well Being; Preschool Children; Coping; Stress Management; Attendance; Outcomes of Education; Foreign Countries; Mixed Methods Research; Questionnaires; Multivariate Analysis; Parenting Styles; Program Effectiveness; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents education; Elternbildung; Elternschule; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Bewältigung; Stressmanagement; Stressbewältigung; Anwesenheit; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Ausland; Fragebogen; Multivariate Analyse; Australien
Abstract	Coping skills provide a resource for tackling stress in everyday situations, including those relating to parenting. The aim of this article is to establish whether parents who experienced a 10-hour universal social emotional parenting program--Families Coping (FC)--benefit through increased productive coping strategies, decreased nonproductive coping strategies, and increased parent wellbeing, within a positive parenting framework. It is also of interest to see whether gender and/or partner attendance makes a difference in program outcomes such as coping styles and wellbeing. The data set combined two groups of parents (N = 23) of preschool-aged children from an early learning centre in inner-metropolitan Melbourne in 2013 and 2014 who undertook the FC parenting program. A mixed methods design was employed, where parents completed pre- and post-program questionnaires on coping and wellbeing. Results were considered with respect to gender and partner attendance. A one-way repeated-measures multiple analysis of variance (RM-MANOVA) showed a significant increase in one productive parenting style (Dealing with the Problem), a significant decrease in nonproductive parent coping, and a significant increase in parent wellbeing. Comparison of results between gender and partner attendance groups showed minimal differences in program effectiveness. Qualitative data mostly confirmed the key findings. (As Provided).
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