The effect of prosocial skills training based on skillstreaming program on social competence of male aggressive students

  The aggression is a prevalent disorder that has made many problems for children, families and schools. Thus, The aim of this study was to determine the effect of prosocial skills training based on skillstreaming program on the social competence of male aggressive students. This study was a field experimental study with pre-post-test and follow-up with control group design. The sample was consisted of 41 male students of elementary school in Ahvaz city (21 exprimental group and 20 control group) in 5 and 6 grades in academic year 2015-2016 that were selected by multistage cluster random sampling method and were assigned into two experimental and control groups randomly. Both of the groups completed the social competence scale as pre-test. Then, the intervention was administered in 17 sessions to the experimental group. eventually, the post-test was administered to both groups and after 6 weeks they received the follow-up. The results of covariance analysis showed that prosocial skills training causes an increase in social competence (P< 0/05). Also, the results indicated that the treatment still has an effect on the social competence after 6 weeks (P< 0/05). According to the results of this study, we can say that skillstreaming program training can be effective on increasing social competence and as a result, improvement of adaption level and life quality of aggressive children