The Effect of Positive â Thinking Skills on the Pessimistic documentary Style in Primary School Boys
Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning
Mana
Chamzadeh Ghanavati
1
(کارشناسی ارشد روانشناسی عمومی، واحد اصفهان (خوراسگان)، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی اصفهان، ایران)
Asghar
Aghaei
2
(2استاد دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روان شناسی، واحد اصفهان(خوراسگان)، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اصفهان، ایران)
Mohsen
Golparvar
3
(3دانشیار دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روان شناسی، واحد اصفهان(خوراسگان)، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اصفهان، ایران)
Keywords: pessimistic documentary style, Training positive thinking skills, Primary school male students,
Abstract :
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of positive thinking skills on pessimistic documentary style among primary school male students. The statistical population was consisted of all 9 t0 11 year- old male students, totally as 450 boys, in Isfahan in academic year of 2013-2014.Being selected through accessible sampling, the research sample included 42 students who were randomly categorized into control and experimental groups (each group of 21 members). Each group completed the Children's documentary Style of Thompson et al questionnaire (1998). Considering the convergent validity, this questionnaire was in an acceptable level and its reliability also, as estimated by Cronbach' alpha, was as %61. Then the experimental group received 12 sessions of education (each 90 minutes) about positive thinking skills based on Chamzadeh Ghanavati' book as " me and my thought"( 2014). In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics as frequency table and frequency percentage were used and multivariate analysis of covariance, also, was applied for inferential measurement. Data were analyzed by means of SPSS software 18th version. Findings indicated that the both groups in terms of pessimistic documentary style were meaningfully different based on personalization dimension ( p < 0/05 ) and permanence dimension ( p <0/01); however, no significant difference was observed considering the pervasive dimension (p >0/01 ) .Generally, the pre-test and post-test scores showed that there was a significant relationship between the both group ( p <0/01) and teaching positive thinking skills had an great effect on decreasing the level of pessimistic documentary style.
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