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Trial reportFamily process2026

Part II: Can School-Based Delivery of an Evidence-Based Parenting Program Promote the Home-School Partnership? Parental Self-Regulation as the Mechanism of Change.

Tianyi Ma, Cassandra L Tellegen, Julie Hodges, Christopher Boyle, Matthew R Sanders

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Trial report in Family process, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Tianyi MaParenting and Family Support Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0499-1054
Cassandra L TellegenParenting and Family Support Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7989-8188
Julie HodgesParenting and Family Support Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1790-3076
Christopher BoyleSchool of Education, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6196-7619
Matthew R SandersParenting and Family Support Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3479-6337

Funding

ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course CE200100025Department of Education, Australian Governement
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-quality partnerships between families and schools can bring enormous benefits to the development, learning, and well-being of children. Although past literature has frequently identified the parenting self-efficacy element of parental self-regulation as a key determinant of the strength of the home-school partnership, this knowledge base relies heavily on cross-sectional studies. This paper follows on from an article in Family Process reporting the findings of a cluster randomized trial of an evidence-based parenting program designed to promote parental self-regulation, namely the seminar version of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program. The trial found post-intervention improvements in two domains of the home-school partnership, namely parent-teacher communication and parent school-based involvement. Given that the home-school partnership was not a target of the intervention, the current study conducted a mechanism of change analysis to examine whether improvements in the home-school partnership could be attributed to post-intervention improvements in parental self-regulation. Data were collected from a sample of 912 parents of children attending 160 different primary schools across three Australian states. Following a Random Intercept Cross-lagged Panel Model (RI-CLPM) approach, bidirectional within-participant effects between parental self-regulation and parent-teacher communication were found, while unidirectional within-participant effects were found for parent school-based involvement. The findings provided support to the proposed theory of change where improvements in parental self-regulation are the underlying mechanism behind reported post-intervention improvements in the quality of the home-school partnership. The findings also support the potential spillover benefits of school-based delivery of evidence-based parenting programs. Trial Registration: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: ACTRN12623000852651.

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ParentingParentsSchoolsSelf-ControlAustraliaChildCommunicationEvidence-Based PracticeFemaleHumansMaleParent-Child RelationsSelf Efficacycluster randomized trialfamily–school partnershipmechanism of changeparental self‐regulationparent engagementparent involvementtriple P

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PMID42047529
PMCPMC13123302

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