TY - JOUR ID - 47814 TI - Raising Adolescent Children as a Developmental Task of Iranian Middle-aged Mothers: A Qualitative Study JO - International Journal of Community Based Nursing & Midwifery JA - IJCBNM LA - en SN - 2322-2476 AU - Fallahi, Fatemeh AU - Anoosheh, Monireh AU - Foroughan, Mahshid AU - Vanaki, Zohreh AU - Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan AD - Department of Nursing, School of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran; AD - Research Center on Aging, Department of Gerontology, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran; AD - Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 10 IS - 2 SP - 120 EP - 133 KW - Adolescent KW - Middle-aged KW - Mothers KW - Parenting KW - Qualitative research DO - 10.30476/ijcbnm.2021.90710.1726 N2 - Background: Most parents consider adolescence to be the most difficult stage of parenting. Parental practice is a determining factor in adolescents’ outcomes. Mothers play the main role of parenting in Iran. Coinciding the transition of adolescence with the transition of middle-aged mothers can affect the mothers’ parenting practice. The present study aimed at explaining the Iranian mothers’ practice in parenting an adolescent child.Methods: This qualitative conventional content analysis was conducted from July 2018 to November 2019 in Kashan. 21 in-depth semi-structured interviews with mothers of adolescent children were performed using a purposive sampling method. The data were analyzed through conventional content analysis. Data collection and analysis were performed simultaneously using MAXQDAv10 software.Results: Regarding the study objectives, two themes and six main categories were identified. The theme of ‘laying the groundwork for upbringing’ was detected by two main categories: ‘meeting the needs and ‘effective interaction with the adolescent’; also, the theme of ‘individual-social capacity building’ was explained by four main categories: ‘helping to gain independence’, ‘modeling individual-social behavior’, ‘socializing the adolescent’, and ‘preparing to accept future roles’.Conclusion: Mothers’ practice was mainly focused on adolescents’ independence, college education, career prospects, and marriage preparation and respect for older adults. Consistent with this transition to modernity, and contrary to the collectivist values of Iranian society, mothers’ practice was in line with developing adolescents’ independence and building their self-confidence, which is close to the authoritative parenting style. UR - https://ijcbnm.sums.ac.ir/article_47814.html L1 - https://ijcbnm.sums.ac.ir/article_47814_cad219f138003d07cc95cefb67a68904.pdf ER -