Thesis:

The effectiveness of social skills training on children's social adaptation٫ self-concept and creativity

Children's character development, becoming a good citizen, learning the appropriate ways of dealing with others is essential in today's world. The lack of social skills causes children to face problems and causes lack of compromise in interpersonal relationships, problems and behavioral disorders. This study was conducted with the aim of determining the impact of social skills training on children's social adjustment, self-concept and creativity. This research is semi-experimental. In this study, which used a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and random selection of subjects, 36 female students of 4th, 5th and 6th grade of elementary school, Bojnurd city, were randomly selected and placed in two experimental and control groups. In order to collect information, Sinha and Singh's adaptability questionnaire, Pierz-Harissis children's self-concept scale, and Abedi's creativity questionnaire were used. The experimental group was trained in social skills for 7 sessions In this research, the agricultural social skills training package (2015) was used. Covariance analysis has been used to test the research hypotheses. The results showed that social skills training has been effective on children's social adaptation, self-concept and creativity. Therefore, it is recommended that the educational system teaches social and emotional skills and how to express and control emotions to students from the very early years and help them to become useful citizens

Keywords: social skills, social adaptation, self-concept, creativity