Volume 24, Issue 101, January - February, 2020

The effect of teaching negotiation styles to parents of female adolescents on parent-child relationship

Sahar Sobhani¹, Mohammad Reza Mansoorian^2♦, Ali Delshad³, Yaser Rivandi⁴

¹MSc Student, Management and Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran
²Assistant Professor, Management and Community Health Nursing Department, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran
³MSc of Community Health Nursing, Management and Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran
⁴MSc of Community Health Nursing, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran

^♦Corresponding author
Assistant Professor, Management and Community Health Nursing Department, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran

ABSTRACT

Introduction and Objective: Adolescence is one of the important periods of life and transition from childhood to adulthood. Prevalence of many psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, and substance use disorder increases during adolescence. Proper communication between parents and adolescents is conducive to better physical, mental and social maturity in adolescence. This study tended to determine the effect of teaching negotiation styles to parents of adolescent girls on parent-child relationship. Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental intervention with pre-test and post-test with control group. The sample was selected using convenience sampling and included 64 parents with moderate to poor negotiation skills and their adolescent girls aged 13 to 18 years. The data collection continued from May to August 2019. Data was collected using a demographic questionnaire, Pierre’s negotiation style and skills questionnaire and Fine’s parent-child relationship survey. Analysis was done using SPSS 20 software and descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, chi-square, pairwise T and independent T tests. Results: Teaching parenting negotiation style led to a significant increase in parent-child relationship score for adolescent girls (P<0.0001). The mean score of mother-child relationship for adolescent girls before and after the intervention was higher than the father-child relationship score, although this improvement was not statistically significant (P>0.05).This means that teaching parenting negotiation style improves parent-child relationship in both parents and there was no significant difference between mother-child relationship and father-child relationship. Moreover, parent-child relationship score of adolescent girls of intervention group in the mothers and fathers group showed a significant increase (P<0.001). Conclusion: Teaching parenting negotiation styles is effective on parent-child relationship and improves parental relationship with adolescent girls. Therefore, teaching negotiation styles is recommended for adolescent girls to prevent puberty disorders.

Keywords: Negotiation style, parent-child relationship, adolescent, girls, puberty

Medical Science, 2020, 24(101), 107-112

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