The Effective Self-Awareness skills teaching on reduce the High-risk Behavior among High School boy Students

Authors

  • Hamid Arjang M.A. in school counseling and teacher the education area One of Kermanshah
  • Leila Jabari M.A. in psychology and teacher Farhangian University & teacher the education area One of Kermanshah
  • Sara Takalo M.A. in educational psychology and teacher the education area One of Kermanshah

Keywords:

self-awareness-High-risk behaviors, high school students

Abstract

The aim of this investigation is study self-awareness skills teaching on reduce the High-risk behavior among high school boy students. The research is semi- empirical pre-test post-test with a control group. The study population consisted of all high school boy students in Kermanshah region, among them 216 people was selected in cluster accident sampling. All of them have responded the questionnaire of high-risk behaviors. This questionnaire was made by Shoja'i Baghyny (2009), 30 of those who scored above the mean was selected after cloning based on age and educational status of the parents, and  were divided randomly into two groups: control and experimental group. The experimental groups were trained self-awareness skills 10 sessions of 90. In this period, the control group received no training. to analysis,  the spss software for data , covariance analysis were used Results are in 95%  significance level and showed that self-awareness education were reduce the High-risk behavior in the experimental group.

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Published

2014-08-29

How to Cite

Arjang, H. ., Jabari, L. ., & Takalo, S. . (2014). The Effective Self-Awareness skills teaching on reduce the High-risk Behavior among High School boy Students. Scientific Journal of Review, 3(8), 837-841. Retrieved from http://sjournals.com/index.php/sjr/article/view/484

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Physical Education