Developing an emotional intelligence program and its effectiveness on decreasing behavior problems of adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems that living in single-parent families

The purpose of this study was to develop an emotional intelligence training program and to evaluate its effectiveness on decreasing behavior problems of adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems that living in single-parent families. This program was offered through workshop which consisted of 10 sessions, two hours per session. The study utilized a quasi-experimental research method with pretest-posttest and follow-up with control group. The sample of the study was selected by a purposive sampling method and11 students in the experimental group and 12 students in the control group were among the adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems that living in single parent families. The instruments used in this study included Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), and Youth Self Report (YSR), (Achenbach&Reskula, 2001; Minaee, 2012). The obtained data was analyzed using Repeated Measures of Analysis of Variance, which showed that emotional intelligence training program could significantly decrease behavior problems in adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems in single parent families