The Effect of Social Skills Training on Aggression of Mild Mentally Retarded Children

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of social skills training on aggression of mild mentally retarded children at Ahvaz city. The sample was comprised of 40 boys mentally retarded students eight to ten years old (20 experimental group, 20 control group), who were selected and assigned by random sampling. The Arnold H. Buss and Mark Perry aggression questionnaire was first executed on both groups as a pre-test, then the experimental group were trained for ten sessions of two hours under social skills, and the performance of the two groups were compared in the post-test. The results showed the positive effect of social skills training on decreasing aggression of mentally retarded children.