M.A. Thesis:

The effect of self-care education on the creativity and self-regulation of elementary school students in Sabzevar

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of self-care education on creativity and self-regulation of the grade six elementary girl students of Sabzevar. The current research is application oriented and the research method is semi-experimental which includes pre-test and post-test the control group. The statistical population included all the grade six elementary girl student of Sabzevar in 1396-97. To this end, 40 elementary students in two classe of grade six in Sabzevar are selected by using multistage aciniform method and they are divided into experimental groups (n=20) and control group (n = 20). The prtest was hold on both group. The experimental group received self-care training program in ten sessions of 45 minutes every two sessions a week while the control group t receive any training program. After the completion of thetraining program, both experimental and control groups are given post-test. The instruments of this research are Abedi's creativity questionnaire (1363) and self-regulation questionnaire of Pintrich Vude Groot (1990).The data are collected using descriptive statistics (mean , standard deviation) .Inferential statistics like(Single variable and multivariate covariance analysis) isanalyzed with SPSS20 software. The results of this study showed that self-care education has a positive effect on creativity and self-regulation.

Keywords: Self-care education, Creativity, Self-regulation