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Summary
The Attitude Toward the Freedom of Children Scale and the revised Parent Attitude Research Instrument was administered to 28 Australian mothers. Fourteen mothers attended a nine-week course in Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) and the remaining 14 mothers were placed on a waiting list for the STEP program and acted as the control group. A one-way analysis of variance evaluated the effects of STEP on parental attitudes. The results showed that STEP mothers (as compared to non-STEP mothers) were more democratic in their child rearing attitudes, had a significantly higher tendency to encourage verbalization, and had a significantly lower tendency to be strict with their children.