Developing a Training Package of Psychological-Emotional Empowerment based on the Lived Experiences of Single-Parent Male Adolescents and its Effectiveness on Social Competence

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1 Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

2 Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran.

3 Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran.

4 Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

Abstract

The present study was conducted to Developing a training package of psychological-emotional empowerment based on the lived experiences of single-parent male Adolescents and its effectiveness on social competence. The research method was qualitative, phenomenological-descriptive, and the research method in the quantitative part was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a two-month follow-up period. The statistical population included male teenagers with a single student in the first period of secondary school in Abadeh city in 2022-2023. In the qualitative part, the sample consisted of 15 single-parent male Adolescents were purposefully selected and subjected to in-depth interviews. In the quantitative part, in this research 35 adolescent were selected through purposive sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (18 in the experimental and 17 in the control group). The adolescents in the experimental group received the psychological-emotional empowerment training package during 10 weeks in 10 90-minute sessions.  Pre-test was performed before the intervention and post-test was performed after the intervention. Two months later, the follow-up phase was carried out. The applied questionnaire in this study included Social Competence Questionnaire (SCQ). The data from the study were analyzed through mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 software. The results showed that the psychological-emotional empowerment training package has sufficient content validity according to experts. Also, this training package had an impact on the social competence (P<0001; Eta=0.53; F=36.31) of single-parent male Adolescents. According on the findings of the research, it can be concluded that a training package of psychological-emotional empowerment by creating emotional competencies, gaining competence, autonomy, being effective and communicating with others, empathy and kind behavior with others can be an efficient method to improve the social competence of single-parent male Adolescents to be used

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Journal of Applied Psychological Research

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Available Online from 20 November 2024

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  • Receive Date: 21 June 2023
  • Revise Date: 04 July 2023
  • Accept Date: 27 August 2023
  • First Publish Date: 20 November 2024
  • Publish Date: 20 November 2024

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