Abstract
The present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy in clinical symptoms, anger control and emotional regulation of bully children. This research is a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study design with a nonequivalent control group. The research sample comprises 24 bully children who were purposefully selected from among the students who had responded positively to the researcher’s call. The participants were randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups. Group therapy intervention was conducted on the experimental group during ten sessions. The tools applied in this study consisted of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire by Garnefski et al., State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory by Spielberger and Bullying Scale by Illinois, Espelage and Holt and the subjects answered to their questions in the stage of pretest and posttest. In this research, the data was analyzed based on the analysis of covariance test and with the aid of SPSS software. The findings demonstrated that dialectical behavior therapy has a significant impact on clinical symptoms, anger control and its components and emotional regulation and its components (P < 0.01).
Highlights
IntroductionHassan 278 in the field of psychology and public health [1]
The present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy in clinical symptoms, anger control and emotional regulation of bully children
The findings demonstrated that dialectical behavior therapy has a significant impact on clinical symptoms, anger control and its components and emotional regulation and its components (P < 0.01)
Summary
Hassan 278 in the field of psychology and public health [1]. It is one of the problematic behaviors that has recently attracted the attention of different researchers especially educational psychologists, educational researchers, teachers and parents around the world [2]. Bullying can be defined as a negative deliberate action which is performed with the aim of inflicting physical or psychological injuries on other weaker students who cannot defend themselves [4]. Bullying at school has been considered as a serious personal, social and educational problem which has affected a considerable portion of school students. Effective control of the problem of bullying for school has high priority as much as the school has the responsibility of providing a healthy environment for students so that they learn constructive participation in society [5]
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