Investigating The Effect of Positive Self - Talking on Self - Efficacy in Ele-mentary Male Students

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of positive self - talking on self - efficacy of elementary school students. The population in this study consisted of all elementary school students in the academic year 1393-1394 in the city of Piranshahr. This study is based on semi-experimental design with pre and post-test. First, two schools were selected randomly. From each school, one second grade classes randomly selected. The students selected through random sampling of one of the schools, as the experimental group (34 students) and other schools as a control group (36 students) were selected. Positive self - talking experimental group received ten sessions of education. Devise of measurement was General Self - Efficacy test that the pre - test and post - test was applied to both groups. To analyze the data, univariate covariance analysis and post hoc Bonferroni test were used. The results of Covariance analysis and Bonferroni test for comparison of means showed that positive self-talking has a significant effect on increasing the students Self - Efficacy (p