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Effect of comprehensive intervention on parental rearing behavior of key middle school students

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Zhang, X. Q., R. Q. Li, et al. (2007) Effect of comprehensive intervention on parental rearing behavior of key middle school students. Chinese Mental Health Journal 280-283

Objective: To explore the effect of comprehensive intervention to correct parental unhealthy rearing behavior on middle-school students.

Methods: Eight freshman classes were randomly extracted from two key junior middle schools, four classes as the experimental groups, the other four as the control group. EMBU was applied to measure the difference before and after intervention of both groups. The comprehensive intervention was used, mainly the individual family mental health education and group family education.

Results: After intervention, there were significant improvement in the parents' emotional warmth and understanding factors of experimental group(53.0±10.6/49.3±10.1, 55.7±10.9/50.4±10.5,t= 4.24 or 5.80,P 0.01). Punishment, rejection and deny, undue protection, partial favorite factors of parents were remarkably decreased compared with the control group. There were significant differences between the pretest and posttest scores of experimental group (17.6±5.5/18.7±6.0, 33.6±6.3/36.2±6.7, 19.9±4.0/20.8±4.4, 12.2±4.4/13.9±4.7;t=-2.51, -4.63, -2.45, -4.49, P0.01).

Conclusion: The psycho-social intervention is effective in improvement of the parents rearing behavior.