Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
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PhD student in Psychology, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Gachsaran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gachsaran, Iran.
Abstract
Introduction and purpose: The present study was conducted to determine the efficacy of emotional self-regulation training on the social competence and emotional expressiveness in the male students with the signs of bullying.
Methodology: It was an experimental study with pretest, posttest, control group and two-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the study included male students with signs of bullying in the first secondary school of Yasouj in the academic year 2018-19. The research sample included 40 students with the signs of bullying who were selected through multi-stage random sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 20 students). The research instruments included bullying (Espelage, Holt, 2001), social competence (Felner, Lease, Philips, 1990) and emotional expressiveness (King, Emmons, 1990) questionnaires. The pretest was administered on two groups before starting the intervention; afterwards, the experimental group was under emotional self-regulation training for nine weeks, although the control group didn’t receive any intervention. After the intervention, 4 students in the experimental group and 3 students in the control group had a fall. At the end of the intervention, both groups were taken the posttest and the follow-up test was too taken two months after posttest.
Findings: The results showed that emotional self-regulation training has significant effect on the social competence and emotional expressiveness in male students with the signs of bullying. Thus, this intervention was able to increase the social competence and emotional expression of male students with signs of bullying.
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