التشوه المعرفي و علاقته بالتعزيز الوالدي لدى أطفال الرياض

Abstract EN

The research aims to identify the cognitive distortion of kindergarten children and its relationship with parental reinforcement.

The researcher used the descriptive approach, being the closest to reach the study objectives.

To measure the relationship between the research variables, the researcher designed two questionnaire tools for this purpose, the first for measuring the cognitive distortion, and the second is to measure parental reinforcement.

Each tool consisted of (20) items.

After ensuring the validity and reliability of the two research tools and their reliability to measure the studied phenomenon, the researcher chose a random sample of the parents of the Kindergarten children from four governmental and private Kindergarten belonging to AL-Risaffa (1) District of Baghdad governorate.

The sample reached (200) parents.

After the completion of data collection and the statistical analysis by using the statistical application (SPSS), The researcher concluded that there is an inverse correlation between cognitive distortion and parental reinforcement in kindergarten children, The lower the parental reinforcement, the greater the percentage of cognitive distortions they have, and vice versa.

Therefore, the researcher recommended that parents of kindergarten children should increase parental reinforcement towards their children, which contributes to enhancing their confidence and reducing their cognitive distortion.