Document Type : Original Article
Researchers
1 I dont
2 Allameh Tabatabai university
Ministerial Ethics Committee
Introduction: The parent-child relationship is considered a vital and effective relationship for the formation of love and security. It also indicates the child's first world of communication, which entails a set of emotions and unique expectations. The parent-child relationship pattern is considered one of the vital pillars of children's development and is mostly related to their social and cognitive abilities (Etsamipour, Bagheri, Zare Bahramabadi, 2019). Gratitude as an emotion is an intense and relatively short psychological reaction of gratitude and receiving benefit from another. As a stable mood, it has a long-term, extensive and subtle effect on self-consciousness (Wood et al., 2016).
The results of Lu et al.'s research (2017) showed that the lack of gratitude increases vulnerability and decreases the sense of belonging. Gratitude can help people who have experienced parental psychological control to understand the life and inconsistent growth of the family in a more meaningful and positive way. This research will be conducted using a qualitative method using a phenomenological approach. The phenomenology method enables the discovery of the researcher's desired phenomenon through the study of people's lived experiences (Nubaer, Witkop and Verpio, 2019). The most suitable method for investigating the meaning and experience of phenomena is the phenomenological method (Van Manen, 2016). For this reason, we use the phenomenology method because we intend to study deeply and comprehensively the experience or attitude, the perception of a person.