The effect of social skills training on self-esteem of adolescents with intellectual disability
Abstract Introduction: Self-esteem play essential roles in all of life aspects of peoples, particularly adolescents with intellectual disablity. Therefore, emphasized on instruction of programs that led to improvement of self-esteem. This study was aimed to investigate of the effctiveness of socia...
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2014-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | Abstract Introduction: Self-esteem play essential roles in all of life aspects of peoples, particularly adolescents with intellectual disablity. Therefore, emphasized on instruction of programs that led to improvement of self-esteem. This study was aimed to investigate of the effctiveness of social skills training on self-esteem of adolescents with intellectual disability in Mazandaran province. Materials and Methods: In this semi-experimental study with pretest and posttest design with control group, were selected fourty girls adolescents with intellectual disablity of 14-18 years old through multi-stage cluster sampling method. Subjects allocated randomly into two groups (experimental and control) and each group consist of 20 individuals. Experimental group attended in social skills training in the 8 sessions lasting for 90 minutes, but control group did not. All the participants were assessed through Cooper Smith's self-esteem questionare. The obtained data were statistically analyzed by MANCOVA using SPSS software (version 16, SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). Results: The results of MANCOVA for subscales of self-esteem showed that experimental and control group had significant difference, At least in one of the subscales of the self-esteem of self, social, familly or academic (P= 0/0027). The final results of MANCOVA showed that social skills training had significant and positive effect on the self-esteem of self (P= 0/0033), self-esteem of social (P= 0/0041), self-esteem of familly (P= 0/0039) and self-esteem of academic (P= 0/0026). Conclusion: Social skills training program led to improvement of the self-esteem and their subscules on adolescents with intellectual disability. So planning for Social skills training is of particular importance for adolescents with intellectual disability. Keywords: social skills, self-esteem, intellectual disability. |
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| Item Description: | 1735-7519 2008-2606 10.22122/jrrs.v9i6.911 |