An Investigation of Relative Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Trainings of Self-Esteem on Social Adjustment of Male Juniors of High School
Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning
Keywords: Cognitive-behavior trainings, social adjustment, self-esteem,
Abstract :
Abstract Instrumentation and method : This research is a causal-comparative and a semi empirical research which was done in order to investigate relative effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral trainings of self-esteem on social adjustment of male juniors of high school. For this purpose a sample of students has been selected by the multi-phase clustral random method and randomly divided to two groups (control group and test group) of 20 subject. Then, experimental group participated in the cognitive-behavior self-esteem training session and but control group continued their natural educational course. Both groups were tested in three phases of pre-test (before the first session), middle test ( 1 th session) and post-test (5 th session) with the use of Alice pep's self esteem scale and California social adjustment scale. The results of research indicated the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral trainings on students social adjustment and self esteem. But there was not any significant correlation between demographic specifications of subject tests with their social adjustment and self esteem. In other words, self-esteem training does not have any effect by taking into account individual characteristic.