Effect of teaching stress management skills on self-esteem and behavioral adjustment in people with somatomotor disabilities.
Objective:Psychological interventions for enhancing mental health in those with somatomotor-physical disabilities are vital. The existing research aimed to examine the effect of teaching stress management skills on self-esteem and behavioral adjustment in individuals with somatomotor-physical disabilities.Methodology:The method of the survey was semi-experimental with a pre-test post-test design and a control group. Hence, in Tehran, 40 girls with somatomotor-physical disabilities were selected by using convenience sampling, and they were divided into two groups: control and experiment. Both groups were tested by using a demography questionnaire, Rozenberg's self-esteem scale, and a behavioral adjustment questionnaire. Afterwards, the test group received lessons on stress management within ten sessions, but the control group received no interventions. Then both groups were post-tested, and the collected data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics methods through SPSS software.Findings:Findings showed that teaching stress management skills significantly increased self-esteem and behavioral adjustment in girls with somatomotor-physical disabilities (p < 0.001).Conclusion:According to the study, it could be concluded that teaching stress management skills is an effective way to help endangered individuals such as girls who have somatomotor-physical disabilities because it is highly efficient especially when it is performed in groups, it is cheap, and acceptable by different people.
General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.
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Kamalinasab
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Payam Noor, Tehran, Iran.
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Mahdavi
Clinical Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.
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Ebrahimi
Clinical Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.
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Vahidi Nekoo
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
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Aghaei
General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.
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Ebrahimi
behavioral adjustment; self-esteem; somatomotor-physical disability; stress management