Document Type : Research Paper
Author
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Education of People with Special Needs, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of the paradoxical time table on mothers' anxiety and worry, and children's internalized problems. This study was a quasi-experimental study, pre-test-post-test type with a follow-up period with a control group. The statistical population was children (age 7-9) with internalizing problems in Isfahan in 1404 and their mothers. By purposeful sampling method, 40 people from this population were selected as a sample and 20 people were randomly assigned to the experimental group and 20 people were randomly assigned to the control group. Mothers in the experimental group participated in six 60-minute sessions of the paradoxical time table, and the control group did not receive any intervention. Both groups completed the research instruments including: beck Anxiety Scale, Pennsylvania Anxiety Questionnaire, and Achenbach Behavioral Disorders Inventory (2001) before and after the intervention. The data were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of covariance. The findings showed that the values of both variables in the control and experimental groups in the post-test stage were significantly different (significance level less than 0.05). Therefore, this intervention had a positive and significant effect on (maternal anxiety (F = 420.587, P = 0.0001), (maternal worry (F = 231.057, P = 0.0001), and children's internalized problems (F = 288.629, P = 0.0001)). Therefore, the paradoxical time table is effective on maternal anxiety and worry, and children's internalized problems.
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