A new approach to children's education quarterly

A new approach to children's education quarterly

Comparison the Effectiveness of Circle of Security Parenting, Parenting based on Acceptance and Commitment and Schema-based Parenting Training on Mother's Depression, and Anxious and Avoidant Attachment of Primary School Children with Learning Disabi

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Azam Yadegary Ghahdarijani 1
Parvin Jamshidian Ghalehshahi 2
Mansoureh Bahramipour Isfahani 3
1 PhD student in Psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of psychology, Shah.C., Islamic Azad University, Shahreza, Iran
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
10.22034/naes.2025.538351.1745
Abstract
The aim of this research was comparison the effectiveness of Circle of Security Parenting, parenting based on acceptance and commitment and schema-based parenting training on mother's depression, and anxious and avoidant attachment of primary school children with learning disabilities symptoms. his semi-experimental and field study used a pre-test, post-test and follow-up design. Among parents of primary school children with symptoms of learning disorders in the fall of 2023, 80 people were randomly selected. The stress, anxiety, depression questionnaire made by Lovibond and Lovibond (1995) and the intermediate attachment relationship questionnaire (KCAQ) made by Halpern and Kappenberg and (2006) were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS software, version 26. There was a significant difference in mothers' depression between Circle of Security and schema-based parenting programs (p<0.05). All three educational programs were significantly different from the control group (p<0.01). In anxious attachment, the difference between Circle of Security and schema-based parenting with the control group was significant (p<0.01). But there was no significant difference in avoidant attachment between the three parenting programs (p<0.05). Also, none of the treatments were significantly different from the control group. It seems that parenting program can be a suitable program for training parents to improve their psychological conditions and have a positive effect on creating safe attachment in children.
Keywords
Mothers depression
anxious and avoidant attachment
Learning disabilities
parenting

Subjects

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A new approach to children's education quarterly
Volume 7, Issue 3 - Serial Number 25
Autumn 2025
Pages 178-187

  • Receive Date 31 July 2025
  • Revise Date 20 August 2025
  • Accept Date 23 August 2025
  • First Publish Date 23 August 2025
  • Publish Date 22 November 2025