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Effects of a Parenting Support Program for Parent Empowerment on Parenting Efficacy and Parent-Child Interactions in Families of Young Children with Disabilities

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2011, 12(1), pp.1-25
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

강혜원 1 Jiyeon Park 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of a parenting support program for parent empowerment on parenting efficacy and parent-child interactions in families of young children with disabilities. Sixteen families of young children with disabilities (between the age 2 and 6) participated in the study and the children were diagnosed as having a disability or developmental delay. Eight families (experimental group) were provided with the program for 7 months while the other 8 families (control group) were not. The concrete findings of this study were as follows; First, the parenting efficacy of the mothers in the experimental group increased significantly higher than that of the mothers in the control group while there was no difference between the fathers in the experimental group and those in the control group. Second, a significant difference between pre-test and post-test was found in the interaction behavior of both parents with their children and also in the children’s interaction behavior with their parents in the experimental group. The intervention effect on parent-child interaction behavior was maintained 12 weeks after the program was terminated. Discussions of the results, limitations, and implications for future studies were presented.

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