The effect of communication skills training on social anxiety and anger of abused and neglected adolescents in Tehran

Everyone needs to learn communication skills to achieve a better life. This study aimed to investigate the effect of communication skills training on social anxiety and anger of abused and neglected adolescents in Tehran.

The applied research method is quasi-experimental, pre-test-post-test with a control group. The statistical population includes all abused and unaccompanied adolescents in Tehran. A total of 16 people were selected by purposive, available sampling and randomly divided into two groups of 8 controls and experiments. Communication skills training was held for the experimental group in 9 sessions of 90 minutes. Data collection tools were Lajerka Social Anxiety (1999) and Spielberger Anger (1999) Questionnaire. After analyzing the scores, the analysis of covariance was used to test the hypotheses.

The results showed that communication skills training affected social anxiety (F <0.05) and adolescent anger (0.02) concerning the significance level (0.05).

Lack of communication skills increases social anxiety and anger among abused and orphaned adolescents and causes many social problems. It is recommended that communication skills in daycare centers and semi-centralized children and adolescents with injuries Be used socially so that they learn the most important principle of living, which is to believe in themselves.