Self-Knowledge Training on Increasing Self-Esteem Of 13- to 16-Year-Old Girls

Hossein JafariAzan, Yousef Gorji

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The present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of self-knowledge training on increasing self-esteem of 13- to 16-year-old girls in Borkharan city in Iran. This research was a quantitative and applied purpose quasi-experimental method with "pre-test-post-test" and control group. The participants in the study were 30 people who were selected by random sampling method from 13–16-year-old female students in Borkharan city and were divided into two groups of experiments and controls. The members of the experimental group participated in 5 sessions of 1:30 hours of self-knowledge training and were not considered for the educational control group. One week after the last training session of the experimental group, post-test was taken from both groups. In this study, Cooper-Smith form of 58 questions was used. The results were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (analysis of covariance) and we concluded that the difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of self-esteem is significant at the level of 0.05 (P = 0.03 <0.05). Hypothesis: "Self-knowledge training has an effect on self-esteem of adolescent girls 13 to 16 years old. Fresh in providing interventions.

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