Adolescent
parenting interventions: The role of depression, cognitive ability, and social skills in the evaluation of
program effectiveness.
by Malone, Tanja G.,
Ph.D., ...The University
of Alabama at Birmingham, 2006
..... Research has shown that adolescent mothers and their children face multiple
negative life outcomes, and much time and resources have been directed at
interventions to help these teen-led families. Most recently, efforts have been
made to determine which adolescent parenting interventions or components of
parenting interventions are most effective. In the present study, a
school-based parent training intervention for adolescent mothers and nonpregnant / nonparenting teens
called the Young Mothers Program (YMP) .... was analyzed to determine whether depression, cognitive ability, and social skills
affected the treatment outcome of cognitive readiness to parent.
Three
questions were analyzed regarding the adolescents who
participated in the YMP:
(a) Was there a change in cognitive readiness to
parent after training?
(b) Was there a change in depression after training?
(c) Did depression, cognitive ability, and social skills effect
cognitive readiness to parent?
On the basis of previous research, it was
hypothesized that there would be an increase in cognitive readiness to parent
and depression after intervention. ....It was also hypothesized that depression, cognitive ability, and social skills would
affect cognitive readiness to parent.
รูปแม่วันรุ่น....วุ่นๆๆ ในเมืองไทย.....
Analyses.... were run on adolescent mothers who received YMP training
(preg/train; n = 21), nonpregnant/nonparenting adolescents who received YMP training (nonpreg/train; n
= 35) and nonpregnant/nonparenting adolescents who did not receive any YMP training
(nonpreg/nontrain; n = 37).
.... The results of a series of ANCOVAs indicated
that there was no change in cognitive readiness to parent or depression after intervention. The results of a series
of simultaneous multiple regressions indicated that, for both of the training
groups combined (preg/train and nonpreg/train), there was a trend for cognitive
ability and social skills to impact posttest cognitive readiness to parent. For
the nonpregnant / nonparenting adolescents (nonpreg/train),
......there was a significant
effect of cognitive ability on cognitive readiness to parent. For the pregnant adolescents (preg/train), there were no effects of depression, cognitive ability, or social skills on
cognitive readiness to parent.