Introduction: aggression and anxiety are the main trait of externalizing disorders, providing untreated it leads to negative effects on individual and social relationship specially in adulthood Therefore, this research investigates the influence of painting on aggression and anxiety among male students (8-9 aged).
Method: This study is a quasi-experimental study with pre and post- tests. Thirty male students (8-9 aged) who were obtaining scores higher than cut-off in Conners' parents form questionnaire were selected, and then they were assigned randomly to the control and experimental groups. The experimental group received techniques of painting therapy for ten treatment sessions (45minutes for each session). The aggression and anxiety were measured at the beginning and at end of therapeutic session, utilizing the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale and Children's Inventory of Anger (ChIA). Statistical analysis conducted by analysis of covariance.
Results: There is significantly difference in scores of pretest (53/2±41/131) and posttest (87/114±239/7)  aggression (p<0.001, F= 28.313) and in scores of pretest (27/80±587/5) and posttest (93/75± 497/6) anxiety (p<0.001, F= 15.698) between elementary school boys in pre and post-test.
Conclusion: Findings indicated that painting therapy has effective in improving behavioral problem such as externalizing disorders in elementary school. So, it can be utilized as the therapeutic interventions for decreasing behavioral problems in children.
 

Introduction: Children labor are one of the major social problems. However, this phenomenon is associated with sexual child abuse. They have the inevitable consequence on mental health. Therefore, the aim of current study is to investigate the between aggression and anxiety among child labor with and without sexual child abuse.

Method: This study is a descriptive comparative research. The 60 children with sexual child abuse and 60 children without sexual child abuse were selected in a convenience sampling method in Tehran in 2016. The measuring instruments are Children's Inventory of Anger (ChIA, 2000) and the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS, 1998). Data was analyzed utilizing multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).

Findings: The results indicated that there is the significant difference between the anxiety      (F=14.427, p=0.0001) and aggression (F=16.248, p=0.0001) among child labor with and without sexual child abuse (p<0.001).

Conclusion: These findings emphasize that sexual child abuse should be considered one of the several risk factors to increase anxiety and aggression and also it intensify the level of anxiety and aggression among children labor.