The Effect of Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis on Parent-Child Conflict

Abstract: The present study aims to investigate the effect of Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis on parent-child conflict. The research is done based on the quasi-experimental design. Population of the study included all the female high school students and their parents in district 4 of education, during the academic year of 2015 in Tehran, Iran. The participants were selected based on random clustering method. The related data were collected using the Parent-Child Relationship Survey (PCRS). Spss21 software was implemented for data analysis. Results of the study indicated that Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis (TA) was effective on resolving the parent-child conflict as 74 percent with as significance of p<0.001.

Key words: parent-child conflict, Transactional Analysis (TA), Eric Berne