Effects of Workplace Parent Management Training on Marital and Job Satisfaction among Iranian Working Parents

Masoumeh Mousavi,Arezoo Moosavi,Ramin Alavinezhad

doi:10.3389/fsoc.2017.00019

Abstract

Abstract Background: Shifting the focus of PMT to parents and discussing implications for maximizing the outcomes of PMT for the entire family is new and promising. Objective: We aimed to examine the efficacy of work place parent management training (PMT) on job and marital satisfaction among staff members of an academic center. Methods: We held eight PMT sessions (1.5 hour each) for 20 staff members who were parents to children in the age range of 2 to 12 years. Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) and Occupational Descriptive Index (HSE) were used for baseline and post-intervention data gathering. DAS higher scores indicate higher marital adjustment satisfaction and higher HSE scores indicate higher occupational stress. To analyze changes in HSE and DAS scores over time paired t-test and Wilcoxon Signed Rank test were used respectively. Results: All DAS sub-scales increased from baseline to the final session except for affectional expression which was not significant. We found no significant changes in total or sub-scale HSE scores among participants. Conclusion: Findings of the present study underscore the role of psycho-education usage in work environment and provide evidence about the importance of designing interventions concerning working parents. Implications of parent management training are discussed in the text.

Highlights

Training parents is known to be an effective way to change the behavior of their children, one known approach being “parent management training” or PMT (Westrupp et al, 2016)
Disorder in children that is widely treated with this approach is oppositional defiant disorder and evidence supports the effectiveness of training on parents whose children suffer from ADHD (Jacobs and Winslow, 2004; Darcy and McCarthy, 2007)
We invited parents for a baseline session to explain the goals of the study and set dates for an intake interview, participant’s rights to privacy considered and written informed consent obtained after careful explanation of the study aims in the baseline introduction session

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Introduction

Training parents is known to be an effective way to change the behavior of their children, one known approach being “parent management training” or PMT (Westrupp et al, 2016). Targeting parents in training sessions is considered as a main part of treatment provided for children’s behavioral problems, in specific “externalizing” behavior (Darcy and McCarthy, 2007; Lim and Kim, 2014). This is essentially indirect which means the trainer changes the behavior of the parent which in turn affects that of the child (Mauno et al, 2012). Shifting the focus of parent management training (PMT) to parents and discussing implications for maximizing the outcomes of PMT for the entire family is new and promising

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