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Volume 23, Issue 141 (11-2024)
Journal of Psychological Science 2024, 23(141): 139-160 |
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Khavari Khorasani R, Ghamari M, Amiri Majd M. (2024). Comparing the efficacy of solution-focused kids’ skills training and friends program training on anxiety and resilience in children. Journal of Psychological Science. 23(141), 139-160. doi:10.52547/JPS.23.141.2183
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Professor, Department of Counseling, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran , mo.ghamari@iau.ac.ir
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Background: Increasing resilience in children helps them experience less anxiety during childhood and subsequently in adulthood. Anxiety can reduce cognitive abilities, deteriorate health, and even alter children's lifestyles. Various therapeutic programs have been developed to enhance, prevent, and treat children's behavioral, emotional, and social problems. Among these are the FRIENDS program and solution-focused kids’ skills method training. There are few studies examining the effectiveness of the FRIENDS program on improving resilience, and no research was found assessing the impact of solution-focused kids’ skills method on anxiety and resilience.
Aims: This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of the Solution-Focused Kids’ Skills method and the FRIENDS program on anxiety and resilience in children.
Methods: The research design was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with a control group and a two-month follow-up. The statistical population consisted of all female students in the second grade of elementary schools in District 2 of Tehran during the 2022-2023 academic year that with Using purposive sampling, 45 students were selected based on inclusion criteria and were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group (with 15 students in each group). Data collection tools included the Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale (Spence, 1997) and the Social-Emotional Assets and Resilience Scales (Merrell, 2010). The FRIENDS program (Barrett, 1991) and the Solution-Focused Kids’ Skills method (Furman, 1990) were implemented separately in 10 sessions of 60 minutes each for the experimental groups, but the control group did not receive any intervention. Data were analyzed using mixed ANOVA and Bonferroni post-hoc tests with SPSS21 software.
Results: Data analysis showed that both the Solution-Focused Kids’ Skills method and the FRIENDS program had significant effects on reducing anxiety and increasing resilience in students. The FRIENDS program was significantly more effective in reducing anxiety (P< 0.05) and the results have continued after two months of follow-up (P< 0.05).
Conclusion: Based on the obtained results, it appears that teaching the Solution-Focused Kids’ Skills method and the FRIENDS program at the elementary school level can sustainably reduce anxiety and increase resilience in children.
Aims: This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of the Solution-Focused Kids’ Skills method and the FRIENDS program on anxiety and resilience in children.
Methods: The research design was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with a control group and a two-month follow-up. The statistical population consisted of all female students in the second grade of elementary schools in District 2 of Tehran during the 2022-2023 academic year that with Using purposive sampling, 45 students were selected based on inclusion criteria and were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group (with 15 students in each group). Data collection tools included the Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale (Spence, 1997) and the Social-Emotional Assets and Resilience Scales (Merrell, 2010). The FRIENDS program (Barrett, 1991) and the Solution-Focused Kids’ Skills method (Furman, 1990) were implemented separately in 10 sessions of 60 minutes each for the experimental groups, but the control group did not receive any intervention. Data were analyzed using mixed ANOVA and Bonferroni post-hoc tests with SPSS21 software.
Results: Data analysis showed that both the Solution-Focused Kids’ Skills method and the FRIENDS program had significant effects on reducing anxiety and increasing resilience in students. The FRIENDS program was significantly more effective in reducing anxiety (P< 0.05) and the results have continued after two months of follow-up (P< 0.05).
Conclusion: Based on the obtained results, it appears that teaching the Solution-Focused Kids’ Skills method and the FRIENDS program at the elementary school level can sustainably reduce anxiety and increase resilience in children.
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Received: 2024/06/26 | Accepted: 2024/08/31 | Published: 2024/09/14
Received: 2024/06/26 | Accepted: 2024/08/31 | Published: 2024/09/14
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