Developing and Testing the Effectiveness of School Based Social Cognition Instructional Package on Proactive Aggression among Children

Subject Areas : روان‌شناسی تحولی

Omid Shokri ^{1 *} , Javad Salehi Fadardi, ² , Jalil, Fathabadi ³ , Vahid Nejati ⁴ , Abbas Zabihzadeh ⁵

1 - PhD Shahid Beheshti University
2 - PhD Ferdowsi University Mashhad
3 - PhD Shahid Beheshti University
4 - PhD Shahid Beheshti University
5 - PhD Shahid Beheshti University

Received: 2021-02-08 Accepted : 2021-02-08 Published : 2020-12-21

Keywords: anger management, social cognition, social/emotional/academic adjustment, SIP model,

Abstract :

This study aimed to develop and test the effectiveness of school-based social cognition instructional package on reducing proactive aggression among children Aged 8-12 by applying social information processing theory (SIP). In this semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design and control group in company with follow up stage, 34 students in experimental (17 students) and control (17 students) groups responded to the Children’s Inventory of Anger (Nelson & Finch, 2000), and the Adjustment Inventory for School Students (Sinha & Singh, 1993). The experimental group received 10 school-based social cognition instructional package sessions (2 hours a session). The results of the statistical procedures of multivariate and univariate covariance analysis indicated that school-based social cognition instructional package was effective in increasing social/emotional/academic adjustment and in decreasing different dimensions of children's anger consisted of frustration, physical aggression, peer relations authority relations in short term and long term. These findings suggest that school-based social cognition instructional package by reducing or eliminating interpersonal stressors, tolerating or adjusting to negative events or realities in interpersonal situations, maintaining a positive self-image, maintaining emotional equilibrium and, continuing satisfying relationships with others could result in mental immunization in students.

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