The Effect of Emotional Intelligence Training on Egocentrism among Students of Zabol University in the academic year

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Ph. D. Student of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Zahedan Azad University, Zahedan, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty Member of the Faculty of Psychology, Zahedan, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran

Abstract

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of emotional intelligence skills training on egocenrism in gifted students of Zabol city.
Methods: In this research, a quasi-experimental research method was used such as pre-test, post-test and follow-up with control group. The population of this study was high school students in Zabol city. A sample of 30 students who were in a self-diagnosis questionnaire with a deviation higher than the mean were selected as the sample and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups of 15. Students in the experimental group received emotional intelligence training for 9 sessions, while the control group did not receive any interventions. While the control group did not received any interventions. For data analyze, the Lapsley Egocentrism questionnaire (1996) was used for pretest, posttest and follow up and the research instruments were then run in three stages: pre-test, post-test and follow-up. ANCOVA and MANCOVA were used to analyze the data.
Results: The results of multivariate and single-variable covariance analysis showed that there was a significant difference between the Egocentrism of the two experimental and control groups in the post-test and follow-up stage and Emotional intelligence skills were able to reduce the Egocentrism in the experimental group.
Conclusion: The results showed that emotional intelligence training had a significant effect on Egocentrism of high school students in Gorgeous high school and decreased Egocentrism in students of experimental group.

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medical journal of mashhad university of medical sciences
Volume 61, supplment1
January and February 2019
Pages 143-153

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