Pages: 25-40

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness on the interaction between mother and child in mothers of female students of Bojnourd High School. In term of purpose it is an applied study, and in terms of the research method, a quasi- experimental study with pretest and posttest design and the control group. The data collecting tool used in this study was the parent-child interaction questionnaire Robert M., Ross (1961). The statistical population of this study includes all female high school students in Bojnourd city which consists of 9874 people. The sampling method was a simple random method and 60 of students were selected, and the questionnaire was distributed among them, and they were divided into two groups of control group and experimental group (each 30). The descriptive and inferential statistics were used using SPSS 32 software package along with covariance analysis. The results showed that teaching mindfulness has significant effect on mother-child interaction. Therefore, mindfulness has positive effect on interaction between mother and child in mothers of female students of Bojnourd high schools.