Çekiç Ali, Korkmaz Kübra, Cömert Sebnem Aslan, Yildirim Ibrahim
Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Türkiye.
Izmir Provincial Directorate of National Education, Izmir, Türkiye.
Front Psychol. 2025 May 1;16:1478262. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1478262. eCollection 2025.
The aim of this study was to determine the variables that have been studied in relation to parents' irrational beliefs, and to examine the relationships between these variables through meta-analysis. Additionally, this study aimed to explore cultural differences in parents' irrational beliefs by conducting subgroup analyses based on the country in which the study was conducted.
Fifteen studies, which had been issued in the databases of Google Scholar and Web of Science (WOS) between the years of 1990 and 2023, met the inclusion criteria and were included in the analyses. In these fifteen studies, the associations of parents' irrational beliefs with twenty three different variables were examined. These variables were reorganized under the titles of "Irrational thoughts", "Positive mental health (Parent)", "Negative mental health (Parent)", "Negative mental health (Child)", "Positive behavior (Parent)", "Negative behavior (Parent)", "Adaptation (Parent)", "Parent-child relationship", "Positive characteristics (Child)" and "Irrational beliefs (Child)" in line with expert opinions. Among these variables, the effect sizes of those that included a sufficient number of studies for meta-analysis were calculated separately.
Accordingly, the largest effect size was calculated between parental irrational beliefs and general irrational beliefs (0.60), and the smallest effect size was calculated between parental irrational beliefs and children's negative mental health characteristics (0.15). In the subgroup analyses conducted according to the country of the study, the largest effect sizes were observed in USA for all variables, while the lowest effect sizes were observed in Turkey.
本研究的目的是确定与父母不合理信念相关的已研究变量，并通过荟萃分析检验这些变量之间的关系。此外，本研究旨在通过根据研究开展所在国家进行亚组分析，探讨父母不合理信念中的文化差异。
1990年至2023年间发表在谷歌学术和科学网（WOS）数据库中的15项研究符合纳入标准并被纳入分析。在这15项研究中，考察了父母不合理信念与23个不同变量之间的关联。根据专家意见，这些变量被重新归类在“不合理想法”、“积极心理健康（父母）”、“消极心理健康（父母）”、“消极心理健康（儿童）”、“积极行为（父母）”、“消极行为（父母）”、“适应（父母）”、“亲子关系”、“积极特征（儿童）”和“不合理信念（儿童）”等标题下。在这些变量中，对那些有足够数量研究可供荟萃分析的变量分别计算效应量。
据此，计算得出父母不合理信念与一般不合理信念之间的效应量最大（0.60），父母不合理信念与儿童消极心理健康特征之间的效应量最小（0.15）。在根据研究所在国家进行的亚组分析中，所有变量在美国观察到的效应量最大，而在土耳其观察到的效应量最小。
