Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
M.A Student at Allameh Tabataba'i University
Abstract
Purpose: the purpose of this research was to identify the extent of the effectiveness of empathy educational program on bullying in the children 4 to 6 years old in pre- school centers.
Research design was pre -test, post- test and follow- up design with control and experimental groups or inter-group design. According to randomly cluster sampling, a pre- school center related to elementary schools was selected. After checklist of bully child evaluation by educator, 30 children were identified who has expressed bullying once or twice during two months. They were divided into two groups randomly. Experimental group participated in eight sessions of empathy educational program and each session lasted for 45 minutes. the extent of bully behaviours was measured using the scale of the evaluation of bullying behaviour of Elvisen Qustionnaire .(1996).covariance analysis test showed that empathy skill education could reduce bully behaviours in children. In addition, the results of this research showed that empathy skill education has been stable in follow-up stage. (45 days after education stopping) and it meant that effectiveness has been retained in follow-up study. Therefore, we conclude that empathy education is effective in bullying reduction.
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