The Effectiveness of PRIZ Creativity Training Program on Social Interactions and Social Adjustment of Students

The present research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the PRIZ creativity training program on social interactions and social adjustment of first-year high school students of Shabestar in the academic year of 2018-2019 with a Semi-experimental research method in the pre-test and post-test design with the control group. The statistical population included all first-year high school female students of Shabestar (n=1524), among whom used convenience sampling to select 30 eighth-grade students based the inclusion criterion was obtaining the lowest score in questionnaires Selected and randomly assigned them to the experimental (n=15) and control (n=15) groups. Then, the PRIZ creativity training program was presented to the experimental group in 8 sessions. At the end of the training, the experimental and control groups completed the questionnaires again. The research instruments were the individual-social adjustment (California, 1953) and social interactions (Sadeghpour & Ramezannejad, 2016) questionnaires. Multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) and SPSS version 24 software were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the experimental group's mean of social interactions and social adjustment increased significantly after training. There was a significant difference in the post-test scores of social interactions and social adjustment in the experimental group compared to the control group. Therefore, the PRIZ creativity training program promotes female students' social interactions and social adjustment