The Effect of the Child-Parent Relation Therapy Program on the Parenting Stress and Parenting Efficacy of Mothers of the Multi-Cultural Families

Abstract

Multicultural mothers have difficulty in helping children study and also playing with them without knowing and what and how to do. The object of this study was to identify the effects of parenting sense of competence of International married women. SPSS 23.0 was used for data analysis to verify the effects of the training program. Among statistical methods, for homogeneity, the Mann-Whitney U Test was used and for difference of pretest and post-test, the Wilcoxon Singed-Rank Test was conducted. Parenting stress was measured by Abidin’s parenting stress Index. Parenting competence was measured by Shin’s Parenting Sense of Competence(PSOC). The results of this study were as follows; A play-based self-expression training program is effective in improving the caring efficacy of International married women. There were statistically significant differences shown in 3 sub-factors of the feeling of rearing efficacy, including the feeling of the parental efficacy, the feeling of the insecurity of the parent, and the role and the interest of the parent. This study has a significance in terms that it proved the effects of the child-parent relation therapy program, and the effects were confirmed by an experimental study.