Effectiveness of the training of emotion regulation strategies on the development of moral judgment, pro-social behavior and anger control in the students in Ahwaz City

The aim of this study was to determine effectiveness of the training of emotion regulation strategies on the growth of moral judgment, prosocial behavior and Inhibition of anger in Ahwaz city students. The research method was pre-test and post-test with control group and follow-up. The participants of this study consisted of all second-grade secondary school students in Ahwaz city in the academic year of 2016-2017. Using multi-stage cluster random sampling, 160 students were selected from 40 students and randomly divided into two groups Experiments (20 people) and control group (20 people) were assigned. The experimental group was subjected to training of emotion regulation strategies for 2 months and the control group did not receive any intervention, after the post-test program and one and a half months after the intervention, a follow-up phase was performed. The tools used for data, Lotf Abadi's Moral Development Questionnaire, Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire and Eiseng -Wilson Anger Questionnaire. Data analysis was using Multivariate Covariance Analysis (MANCOVA) and ANCOVA single-variable. The results of the research showed a significant level of education (p < 0.001) Showed that the training of emotional adjustment strategies affects the growth of moral judgment, prosocial behavior and Inhibition of anger in students, and this result was persistent during the follow up phase.