J Korean Acad Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs JKAPMHN Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 1225-8482 2288-4653 The Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 10.12934/jkpmhn.2010.19.4.411 Original Article Effects of the Core Competency Support Program in Parenting Role on Sense of Competence in Parenting, Parent-Child Communication, and Parental Role Satisfaction in Parents of Adolescents Park Hyun Sook 1 Koo Hyun Young 2 Professor, College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, Korea. Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, Korea. Address reprint requests to: Koo, Hyun Young, College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, 3056-6 Daemyeong 4-dong, Nam-gu, Daegu 705-718, Korea. Tel: 82-53-650-4829, Fax: 82-53-650-4392, hykoo@cu.ac.kr 12 2010 31 12 2010 19 4 411 419 06 09 2010 08 12 2010 08 12 2010 © 2010 The Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2010 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Purpose

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of the core competency support program in parenting role on sense of competence in parenting, parent-child communication, and parental role satisfaction in parents of adolescents.

 Methods

The study was a quasi-experimental design. Participants for the study were parents of adolescents, 12 in the experimental group and 12 in the control group. Data were analyzed using Fisher's exact test and Mann-Whitney U test with the SPSS/WIN 14.0 program.

 Results

Scores for sense of competence in parenting of participants in the core competency support program in parenting role were not significantly different from those in the control group. Participants in the core competency support program in parenting role had higher parent-child communication, which were significantly different from those in the control group. Participants in the core competency support program in parenting role had higher parental role satisfaction, which were significantly different from those in the control group.

 Conclusion

The core competency support program in parenting role was effective in increasing parent-child communication and parental role satisfaction for parents of adolescents. Therefore, this approach is recommended as a strategy for parents of adolescents.

 Parents Mental competence Communication Personal satisfaction Korea Research Foundation KRF-2007-313-E00579

This work was supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government (MOEHRD, Basic Research Promotion Fund (KRF-2007-313-E00579).

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 Homogeneity of Dependent Variables between Two Groups in Pretest (N=24)

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 Comparison of Parenting Sense of Competence, Parent-child Communication, and Parental Role Satisfaction between Two Groups according to Treatment (N=24)

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