Effectiveness of Life Skills Training Applying Storytelling on Shyness of Elementary School Student

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of life skills training applying storytelling on the shyness of 5th grade elementary school children. An experimental pretest، posttest with control group paradigm was administered. The study sample consisted 39 children (experimental= 20، control= 19) who were chosen in one school in Tehran city in a volunteer basis and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. A measure of shyness was collected using Stanford Shyness Scale in pretest stage of the study. Consequently، subjects in the experimental group received 13 sessions of life skills training by storytelling method، whereas no intervention was made in control group. After two weeks all subjects again were filled Stanford Shyness Scale and data were extracted from scales. The dataset was then analyzed by analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Result reveled a significant difference between 2 groups. The life skills training decreased mean of shyness.