An Exploratory Study on Parent Coaching Program for Overcoming Parenting Stress of Highly Educated Mothers

This study examines the causes of parenting stress experienced by highly educated mothers in the process of raising their children and strategies for overcoming them. Accordingly, in-depth interviews were conducted with five highly educated mothers raising children in early childhood, and they were analyzed using the case study data analysis method. Through this, the content of parenting stress, strategies for overcoming parenting stress, and results of overcoming parenting stress were analyzed. As a result of the analysis, 59 themes were derived, and the researcher gathered them at a more abstract level from the level of commonality of parenting stress, resulting in 26 themes, which were grouped together into 12 core themes. The results of this study demonstrate the construction of parenting methods based on reason, knowledge, and objective judgment, the husband's participation in parenting, alternative parenting methods, and the need for parenting based on objective knowledge. Based on the results, the study is meaningful in that it provides basic data for the construction of a parent coaching program that can strengthen parents' competencies in situations of parenting stress.