The effectiveness of play therapy based on the relationship parent child (Filial Therapy) on addiction to computer games, and aggression in preschoolers

Subject Areas : Educational

maryam soltani ¹ , Hadi Farhadi ²

1 - Psychology,ISlamic AZad univercity,Isfahan(Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
2 - Assistant professor of Psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

Received: 2019-03-09 Accepted : 2019-05-29 Published : 2021-08-23

Keywords: Addiction to Computer Games, Preschool Children’s Aggression, Play Therapy based on Child-Parent Relationship, Filial Therapy,

Abstract :

The aim of this research  is Teaching play therapy  based on the parent – child relationship (Filial Therapy) to mothers of preschool children and and its effects on computers game addiction and aggression in  their children. Statistical population of this research includes all mothers of preschool children with addiction to computer games Were randomly assigned to either experimental or control groups.The instrument used in this research were addiction to commuter games questionnaire (Farhadi (1395), (parents form), and Vahedi et al. (1999), aggression scale of preschool children (parent form). The participants in two stage of pretest and posttest were answered to research instruments.The experimental group subjected to 10 sessions (2 hour), filial therapy education.The results of this research showed that, filial therapy training to mothers were effective to reduce addiction sign to computer games (p<0.01), children aggression (p<0.05), verbal aggression (P <0.01), and impulsive aggression (P <0.05).Accordingly focusing on educations related to parents was recommended as a strategy to reduce children’s extreme tendency to play computer games.

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