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Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: Evaluation of Psychometric Properties in a Sample of Iranian Students

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD student in psychology, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gazmsar, Iran.

Abstract

Objective: Low self-efficacy and aggression are found in all cultures and are the most common kind of problems in students, which cause discomfort and distress in others; thus, they disrupt the mental health of the community. This study aims to investigate the comparison of effectiveness of group training anger management and psycho-social empowerment on aggression and social self-efficacy. Method: This experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group and follow-up two month. The statistical population of this study included all the female students high school Tehran city to 125110 people were in year academic 2020-2021 and 90 female students by convenience sampling were considered as the sample size in two experimental groups and on group control (each group of 30 female students). The experimental groups underwent group training anger management and psycho-social empowerment (12 sessions 90 minutes in each training), but the control group received no training and remained in the waiting list. To collect data aggression questionnaire and adolescents social self-efficacy scale. Data analysis was performed using SPSS-24 software in two sections: descriptive and inferential (analysis of variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni). Results: The results of the study showed that both types of treatment in post-test and follow up had a significant effect on reducing aggression and increasing social self-efficacy of female high school students (P<0.05). In addition, the results showed that group anger management training was more effective than psycho-social empowerment group in reducing aggression and increasing social self-efficacy (P<0.05). Conclusion: It can be concluded that, anger training anger management and psycho-social empowerment can be considered as a supportive and effective tool for reducing aggression and increasing social self-efficacy and used for adolescents in particular.

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Social Cognition
Volume 10, Issue 19 - Serial Number 19
May 2021
Pages 177-194
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