Fundamentals of Mental Health

Fundamentals of Mental Health

The correlation between mothers’ knowledge of non-verbal communication on mother-child relationship

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Maryam Safara 1
Mahsima Pourshahriyari 2
Zeinab Rezaee Dehshibi 3
Mina Khanbabaee 4
1 Assistant professor, Department of Psychology, Women Research Center, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
2 Associate professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
3 M.A. in counseling, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
4 M.A. in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Educational Sciences and Research University, Ghazvin, Ira
10.22038/jfmh.2019.14248
Abstract
Introduction:  This study investigated the relationship between mothers’ knowledge of non-verbal communication and the relationship between mother and child. 
 Materials and Methods: The population of this correlational study consisted of mothers having 3-6-year child in the academic year of 2015-2016. Pre-school institutions in the five districts of Shiraz were studying. The sample of the study consisted of 154 women, were selected by multistage cluster sampling. The research instrument included test of non-verbal cue knowledge (TONCK) and the scale of the relationship between parent-child (PCRS). Data analyzed by descriptive and analytical statistics using SPSS software. 
 Results: The results showed that the mothers’ knowledge of non-verbal communication and overall positive mother-child relationship were not correlated. In addition, there was no significant correlation between mothers’ knowledge of non-verbal communication with subscales of the mother-child relationship, and mothers’ age and education. 
Conclusion: It seems that there is not significant correlation between the mothers’ knowledge of non-verbal communication and overall positive mother-child relationship.
Keywords
Communication
Knowledge
Mother-child relationship
Non-verbal
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Fundamentals of Mental Health
Volume 21, Issue 3
May and June 2019
Pages 141-146