Effectiveness of Narrative therapy in Self-esteem Enhancement and Self-efficacy in Preschool Children

Story telling is an effective method for personality and cognitive-emotional development in preschool children. The aim of the present research was an investigation of the effectiveness of story therapy in self-esteem enhancement in preschool children. The method of the present study was experimental, and its design was pretest-posttest with control group. Statistical society was preschool children of Ardabil. Thus, 30 preschool children were randomly selected from three preschool centers as sample size and were placed in experimental and control groups. Two stories of three piglets and emperor's new clothes were red for them. Clinical interview and self-esteem scale were used for data gathering, and raw data were analyzed by multiple analyses of variance. Outputs of data analysis indicated that story therapy is significantly effective on self-esteem enhancement. Furthermore, story therapy is effective on concentration and interpersonal relationship. Story therapy is effective on self-esteem through identification with story heroes. Preschool children that have high self-esteem have better concentration and interpersonal relationship too.