The Effectiveness of teaching coping skills for dealing with unpleasant emotions on apparent and relational aggression in students

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor of Psychology, Payame Noor University

2 MA of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, saveh Branch

Abstract

This study explored the effectiveness of teaching coping skills to deal with unpleasant emotions on decreasing students' revealed and relational aggression.  The design of this study was quasi experimental. Statistical population included all elementary students of Training Center in Tehran. Using cluster method, 217 students (118 girls and 99 boys) were randomly chosen and were given Shahim's (2006) apparent and relational aggression questionnaires. Using cut-off point of this questionnaire, we selected 68 students who were considered aggressive out of which 30 students were randomly were chosen for the purpose of the study (15 students for experimental group and 15 students for control group). The experimental group were received six-sessions to be taught coping skills for dealing with unpleasant emotions. The data were analyzed by the statistical method of multivariate analysis of covariance. The findings showed that teaching coping skills to deal with unpleasant emotions on decreasing students' revealed and relational aggression were effective (P<0.05). The findings of this study can be used to propose an appropriate training solution to alter thoughts and emotions of aggressive children and as a result aggressive children behavior.

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