The effectiveness of integrated peace and good selection training program on improving interpersonal relationships and academic motivation of female high school students

Learning to live together with moral values is one of the major topics in education today. Much research has been done on peace education, but the combination of peace education and good education on academic empowerment, including interpersonal relationships and students' academic motivation, has been neglected.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of peace and integration training on improving interpersonal relationships and academic motivation of female high school students in Tehran.

The research was conducted by quasi-experimental method with pre-test-post-test design with experimental and evidence group and one-month follow-up. Its statistical population was female high school students in District 19, Tehran (5901 people) in the academic year of 2019-2020. Sample: 40 students were purposefully selected, and randomly divided into 2 groups of 20 people. The research instrument was Diperna and Elliott (1999) Competency Assessment Scale. For the experimental group, an integrated training program for integrated peace and well-being training, including 8 90-minute sessions over 8 consecutive weeks, was implemented. Finally, both post-test and one month later, follow-up test was taken. The collected data were inferentially analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance and Bonferroni post hoc test with Spss-22 software.

The combined education of peace and good choice had a positive effect on interpersonal relationships and students' academic motivation (P <0.01). This effect was also significant in the follow-up phase.

Integrated peace and good education can be used as an effective way to improve interpersonal relationships and students' academic motivation.