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Comparison of the Effectiveness of Affective Capital Traning and Life Skills Training on Emotional Adjustment among 4-6-Year-Old Children
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Mojgan Kashanizadeh    , Mohsen Golparvar , Ilnaz Sajjadian |
| Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran , drmgolparvar@gmail.com |
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Introduction: Emotional adjustment is very important for the better development of preschool children. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of affective capital training and life skills training on emotional adjustment among 4-6-year-old children.
Methods: This research was a semi-experimental study with a pretest and posttest design with a control group. The statistical population was preschool children in preschool centers in the winter of 2022 in Isfahan, Iran. From them, 45 preschool children were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly assigned to two experimental groups and a control group (15 children for each group). emotional adjustment questionnaire of Thorlacius and Gudmundsson (2017) was used to assess the dependent variable in two stages. The two training groups were each trained for 10 sessions of 45 minutes and the control group did not receive any treatment. The data were analyzed by analysis of covariance and posthoc Bonferroni test.
Results: The results showed that there was a significant difference between affective capital training and life skills training with the control group in the two components of temper control and social assertiveness (p<0.01), but there was no significant difference between the two training groups (p>0.05). In the control of anxiety, there was no significant difference between affective capital training and life skills training in the control group (p>0.05).
Conclusion: According to the research results, affective capital training and life skills training are effective in increasing temper control and social assertiveness in preschool children. It is recommended that these two training be used for preschool children in preschool training centers. |
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| Keywords: emotional adjustment, affective capital traning, life skills training, preschool children |
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Received: 2022/10/24 | Accepted: 2022/12/28 | Published: 2023/07/1
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