Yousef Dehghani

The purpose of this research is to determine and compare the effectiveness of positive parenting and schema-based parenting on life skills. This research was a case study with a pre-test-post-test and follow-up design. The statistical population of the research was made up of children aged 12 to 14 years. The participants were selected by available method and randomly assigned to two experimental groups and control group. The required findings were collected through the Life Effectiveness Questionnaire and analyzed with SPSS-26 software. The findings of the research showed that both approaches have an effect on increasing the different components of life skills and only in the component of active initiative, the effectiveness of schema therapy was not achieved. In other components, there is little significant difference between the effectiveness of the two approaches. Keywords:Positive parenting, Schema-based parenting, Life skills