Authors
1 Master of Nursing Education
2 Faculty member of the Department of Psychology, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz
Abstract
The research is an exprimental study conducted to determine the effect of social skills training on treatment of psychosocial maladjustment in elementary school boys, in. Ahwaz. The original sample was 950 students who were selected randomly from elementary school boys, in 4 areas of Ahwaz education office. From this group, 134 students (pervalence 14.1%) were diagnosed as maladjusted, and 60 of them were selected randomly (20 from each grade), for this research.
The scales used for this sutdy were as follows: 1 (Rutter B Scale, 2), Sociometric Questionnaire for diagnosting maladjusted students, and 3, Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS), for measuring adaptive behavior, in exprimental and control groups.
Research design was a pre-test - post-test exprimental and control groups. Both exprimental and control groups were pretested by ABS, then the exprimental group participated in 8 session of social skills training, which included the following topics: Listening, making friends, conflict resolution, assertion and co-operation. Control group received no training. After that, groups were post tested.
The results of repeated measure ANOVA showed that the adaptive behavior of the two groups were different, the, groups acted differently on different domains, and the interaction of groups and domains were significantly different (p=0.OO1).
Finally, this study suggests that social skills training produced postive effect, and the maladjustment of the exprimental group decreased markedly.
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