Year: 2020
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The role of a parent is an important one (Aminabadi, Jamali, Azar, & Oskouei, 2015).The way in which we parent has an influence on the developmental outcomes of our children.If we are able to parent competently, we can affect children's well-being positively, along with their future success and happiness (Mowder & Sanders, 2008).In recent years there has been an explosion of new parenting approaches.In particular, positive parenting increased in popularity in the 2000s (Ahmann, 2002).Books have been written and programmes have been developed to advise parents in applying a positive parenting approach, which is seen as an optimal approach (Nelsen, 2006).Even though there is growing interest in this parenting approach among psychologists, parenting coaches, and parents, most of the research studies that have been conducted on positive parenting are intervention studies aimed at improving poor parenting practices.These studies are quantitative and concerned with child behaviour outcomes.There are relatively few studies that explore the perceptions of parents about positive parenting in general, and none with regards to parents' motivation to apply a positive parenting approach.Consequently, this study aimed to explore what motivates parents to apply a positive parenting approach.This study was conceptualised and designed within the positive psychology paradigm and based on the Parent Development Theory (Mowder, 2005) framework, which is concerned with parents' thoughts, feelings and behaviour.In this exploratory qualitative study, semi-structured interviews were conducted to gain the perspectives of 16 mothers who identified themselves as positive parents.Participants responded to the following open-ended question: "What motivates you to apply a positive parenting approach?"The data gained was analysed using Braun and Clarke's (2013) thematic analysis technique, from which four categories with Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za
Author: Alexandra K. Bradley
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3138413802