1. Objectifs

Intentions :
The aim of this study was to conduct «a RCT [randomized controlled trial] with a waitlist control condition and used an intent-to-treat analytic procedure to test whether the How-to Parenting Program (French version) could increase the three mentioned key parenting components (i.e., affiliation, structure and autonomy support), according to participating parents and their children.» (p. 2)

Questions/Hypothèses :
«We hypothesized that parents in the How-to condition would show greater improvements on each component at post-intervention than parents in the waitlist condition.» (p. 2-3)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
«Altogether, 293 parents of different families and one of their children, distributed into 30 groups, participated in this study. Parenting groups were composed of 5 to 14 parents […] whose participating children typically attended the same school but varied in age. Regarding parent gender and child sex, four out of five parents were mothers (80.20%), while half of targeted children were girls (50.00%). The majority of parents were aged between 30 and 50 (91.58%) […].» (p. 7)

Instruments :
Questionnaires

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

«Overall, parents in the How-to condition perceived having improved to a greater extent than parents in the waitlist condition on autonomy support. Moreover, parents in the How-to condition who reported lower affiliation and structure at pre-intervention also reported higher affiliation and potentially higher structure, respectively, than parents in the waitlist condition. We found a small to medium effect size for autonomy support and small effect sizes for affiliation and structure. In contrast to these parent report findings, we observed limited differences in child perceptions of parenting between conditions.» (p. 11) «Results from parent reports suggested positive effects of the program on key parenting components. First, parents in the How-to condition reported more autonomy support at post-intervention (small to medium effect size), compared to parents in the waitlist condition.» (p. 11) According to children, results show that «pre-intervention child perceptions of autonomy-thwarting parenting diminished among children in the How-to condition at post-intervention. An unexpected finding also emerged from the sensitivity analyses: children in the waitlist condition reported higher levels of autonomy support at post-intervention compared to pre-intervention. These results, combined with results of PR [parent report] self-reported autonomy support, suggest that the How-to Parenting Program may be especially helpful to decrease autonomy-thwarting parenting.» (p. 12)