Background: Positive parenting in families affects the development of adolescents, teaches the children to be complete physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially, and is a preventative factor for risky behaviors such as unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, violence, and drug addiction in adolescents. Purpose: This study aims to study positive parenting and factors predicting positive parenting among the parents of adolescents in Northern Thailand. Methods: The design is a descriptive correlational predictive study. The sample consisted of 180 parents of adolescents in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. Convenient sampling was used from 180 parents of adolescents. Data were collected using questionnaires including personal data, a life assets questionnaire, a social support questionnaire, a stress questionnaire, and a positive parenting questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression analysis. Results: We found that stress, life assets, social support, age, education level, underlying disease, number of children, number of members in the family, and living in a municipality together with income can influence positive parenting among the parents of adolescents by 40.5 % (F = 11.52, p < .01). Age, life assets, and social support can affect positive parenting with a statistical significance of p < .05. Conclusions: These results highlight the importance of age, life assets, and social support effects on positive parenting. Implications and Contribution These results could be used as a guideline for health care providers, particularly nurses, to develop a positive parenting program for adolescents by enhancing life assets and social support to practice positive parenting behaviours effectively.
Adolescent ; Parents ; Social Support