Institute of Educational

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Adlerian parenting program training (democratic parenting or positive discipline) on mothers' parenting styles and social interest of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The research method was a quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test-follow up with a control group. The statistical population of this research was all the mothers and children aged 7 to 12 years with the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in primary schools of the third education district of Karaj in 2014-2015. The research sample includes 42 mothers who were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly assigned in to experimental and control groups. Questionnaire for diagnosis of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder according to the criteria of the Manual of Diagnosis and Statistics of Mental Disorders (2013), Social Interest Scale for Children (Alizadeh, Esmaili and Sohaili, 2015) and Parenting Styles Questionnaire (Robinson, Mandleco, Olsen, & Hart, 2001) were utilized to measure hyperactivity, social interest and parenting style respectively. The mothers in experimental group was trained in the Adlerian parenting program for 11 session‌‌  90-minute and children for 1 session‌‌  75- minute. The results showed that this program has a significant effect on democratic parenting style (authoritative or positive) (F=5/454, P<0/01) and it has increased. But it has had no effect on the authoritarian and permissive style. Also, the findings show that this program has an effect on the component of Responsibility-task doing of social interest (F=3/946, P<0/05), but no significant change has been reported in the components of Relationship with people-empathy, Confidence-Assertive, feeling of Equality vs. Inferiority-superiority.