Improving Child Peer Adjustment in Military Families Through Parent Training: The Mediational Role of Parental Locus of Control

There are many approaches to parent training that can help improve parents' and children's functioning. This study explored the intervention of parent training focused on parental locus of control in relation to positive social adjustment in children. Locus of control is a personal belief that individuals have power over the events that happens in their lives. Over 300 military families with a history of deployment participated in a study to examine improved social adjustment in children after parents received parent training. Results showed positive social adjustments in children whose parents received the intervention compared to children whose parent did not receive the intervention.