November 19, 2024
Soran Rajabi

Soran Rajabi

Academic Rank: Associate professor
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Degree: Ph.D in Psychology
Phone: 09188708323
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Research

Title
The effectiveness of play therapy on anxiety, problem solving skills and individual adjustment in children with learning disabilities
Type Thesis
Keywords
بازي درماني، اضطراب؛ حل مسئله؛ سازگاري
Researchers zahra dirnik (Student) , Yousef Dehghani (Primary advisor) , Soran Rajabi (Advisor)

Abstract

Play therapy provides an opportunity for children with learning disabilities to experience and learn new skills and prepare themselves to solve life's problems while dealing with life's problems. The purpose of this research was the effectiveness of play therapy on anxiety, problem solving skills and individual adaptation in children with learning disabilities. The working method of the current research was practical in terms of purpose and experimental in nature. The population studied in this research included all children with learning disabilities in the city of Kangan, among whom a sample of 54 students who were eligible to participate in the research was selected using available sampling from schools in the city of Kangan. In the two experimental and control groups (27 people each) it was replaced by simple random and using lottery, before the implementation of the intervention program to both groups of subjects, the Individual Adaptation Questionnaire of Children (1998) March et al.'s multidimensional anxiety scale (1997) and Hepner and Peterson's (1982) problem solving questionnaire were given to them and they were asked to answer all the questions carefully with the help of their parents. and after collecting the data, the play therapy program was implemented on two experimental groups and then they were asked to answer all the questions of the above questionnaires for the post-test. 4 questionnaires were discarded due to incompleteness and finally the analysis was done on a sample of 50 people who had completed the questionnaire; Multivariate analysis of covariance test was used to analyze the data. The results of the research showed that play therapy in the variable of separation anxiety (F=90.6) and (P≤0.001), social anxiety (F=21.1) and (P≤0.001), anxiety (F=81.5) and (P≤ 0.001), harm avoidance (F=4.08) and (P≤0.005) showed a significant difference between the experimental group and the control; but in the component of physical symptoms (F=44.1) and (P≤