The Effect of Emotional Self-Regulation Training on Decreasing Behavioral Problems in Gifted Students with Minor Educational Achievements
Document Type : Scientifc
Authors
1 Department of psychology and education for exceptional children, psychology and education faculty, University of Tehran
2 Associate prof.
3 MA
Abstract
Emotional self-regulation is important component in educational achievement.The main purpose of current study was investigating of the effect of the emotional self-regulation training on decreasing the behavioral problems in gifted students with minor educational achievements. To do so, thirteen female gifted students from Pars Abad middle school were chosen using objective sampling and they were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (15 for each). All examinees responded to Self-regulation in student’s questionnaire (1986) and Achenbach child behavioral inventory (1991) in pretest and post measurement. Analyzing the data using ANCOVA showed that gifted students with minor educational achievements in experimental group have improvement in behavioral problems. The effect size of treatment implied that there is relatively strong association between the treatment and dependent variables. In sum, results of current study implied that instructing learning strategies for self-regulation is advisable for improvement of behavioral problems of gifted students with minor educational achievements.
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Volume 1, Issue 1
WinterMarch 2018Pages 12-24
- Receive Date: 08 October 2017
- Revise Date: 10 December 2017
- Accept Date: 06 January 2018