Abstract
<p>This study tries to examine the effectiveness of social skills training on feeling of loneliness and achievement motivation in nurses. The present research is an experimental study of pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The research instruments included the revised UCLA Loneliness Scale and the Achievement Motivation Test for adults. The sample size consisted of 40 nurses working in Imam Khomeini Hospital in the city of Ahwaz selected through multi-stage random sampling and assigned to two experimental and control groups. To this end, prior to teaching the social skills, both groups were pre-tested. Then, the experimental group received social skills training for 12 fifty-minute sessions but no training was provided to the control group. Upon the completion of the training course, both groups immediately took the post-tests. The results of one-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) showed that social skills training significantly increased achievement motivation and reduced feeling of loneliness in nurses.</p>
Highlights
When challenges and problems arise, access to resources and skills that can help an individual to overcome them to the best can be comforting
Hypothesis 1: Social skills training have an effect on reducing feeling of loneliness in nurses
Based on the statistical results presented in the previous section, the first research hypothesis regarding the effectiveness of social skills training on reducing the feeling of loneliness in nurses was confirmed
Summary
When challenges and problems arise, access to resources and skills that can help an individual to overcome them to the best can be comforting. In this respect, social skills are a set of acquired abilities which enable a person in a social context to interact with appropriate forms and through required capabilities. Acquisition of social skills by children is considered as a part of their socialization in which norms, skills, values, attitudes, and behaviors are shaped to help them to play their current or future roles in society and family properly In this respect, other social institutions such as schools are taken into account as the most important socialization factors which are examined in terms of social values and norms (Heiman & Margalit, 2000)
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