Effectiveness of Social Problem Solving Strategies Training on Self-esteem in Second Grades of Guidance Schools Female Students

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of training social problem solving strategies on self-esteem in second-grade gui-dance schools female students in Yazd. The research design was quasi-experimental with pre-test¡ post-test¡ and control group. (Without inter-vention) and pcychological placebo group (except for intervention of social problem solving stra-tegies). The population in this study comprised of second-grade guidance school female students in Yazd who were enrolled in school year 2012-2013. The sample of this study consisted of 67 students who were selected using multistage random cluster sampling and were assigned in three groups (experimental: N=20¡ control: N=20¡ and psychological placebo: N=27). As for self- esteem a pre-test was performed in all the experi-mental¡ control and placebo groups. Social prob- lem solving strategies training was performed on experimental group in 10 sessions 60 minutes each. Following the experimental intervention¡ self-esteem of the three groups were measured again. Cooper Smith Self-esteem Inventory was used for measuring self-esteem. Analysis of covariance and Bonferroni Post hoc test were used to check the results. The results showed that in the experimental group social problem solving strategies training increased adjusted mean scores of self-esteem scores (P