Abstract:

The purpose of the current study is to investigate the effect of the educational program applied on mothers to support the emotional development of their children on mothers’ coping with the negative emotions of mothers. The study was carried out through pre-test, post-test, retention test and control-grouped experimental design. In the study, The Educational Program to Support the Emotional Development of Children was applied on the mothers in the test group for 13 weeks as one a week for 90 minutes. In the evaluation the efficiency and retention of the Education Program over test group, Coping with Negative Emotions Scale was used. In the analysis of data, t test was used for Split-plot Two Factor ANOVA, Paired Samples and Repeated Measures. As a conclusion, it was found that the education given to mothers made positive support to the behaviours of mothers in coping with the negative emotions of their children.

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