The Effect of Gratitude on Parental Stress among Mothers’ of Early Children

Ika Febrian Kristiana,Niken Fatimah,Darosy Endah Hyoschamina

doi:10.11591/edulearn.v12i4.7248

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Abstract

The stress of parenting as a distress experience in carrying out the demands of parenting role becomes greater experienced by the mother as the primary caregiver as a culture in Indonesia. Be grateful to be a strength-based intervention aimed at strengthening positive emotions and protecting individuals from psychological problems. This experimental study aims to test the effectiveness of gratitude in reducing maternal stress. The experimental design between subjects was selected by dividing the 70 mothers who had early childhood into two groups: the experimental and control group. The data analysis using 2 independent samples test with R statistic showed (p = .023; Cohen's d = .183), and Wilcoxon 2 related samples test (p = .0087) showed that gratitude training was effective to decrease maternal stress. Being grateful for a moral response based on personal reinforcement through thoughts, emotions, and positive and pleasant attitudes that then lead to the ability to give goodness to others. The findings of this study become interesting when examined also from the social context such as the existence of social support where the attitude of gratitude is related to it.

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A nurturing task that involves emotions, energy, thoughts and feelings and no time limit requires a strong commitment as the child grows and the wider range of children's environments
The controls in this experimental study in the form of the randomized assignment were done by placing subjects into experimental and control groups based on predefined subject criteria and based on baseline measurement data on parenting stress mother
The significance value of paired t-test with Wilcoxon (p = .0087

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A nurturing task that involves emotions, energy, thoughts and feelings and no time limit requires a strong commitment as the child grows and the wider range of children's environments. The relationship with a more complex environment is certainly not as simple as relating to the family. The clash between fulfilling personal expectations and social norms has the potential to bring problems especially to children who do not have the ability to cope and manage these conflicts. The child's ability to overcome the clash between personal expectations and social norms has been shown to be related to parenting [1,2]. The experience of children's interaction with parents in the family will determine how children's development in both cognitive, emotional, and social aspects, including patterns of child behavior toward others in society [3]

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