Social Skills Modeling Based on Psychological Well-Being, Loneliness, Anger Management in Deaf Children

This research was conducted with the aim of social skills modeling based on psychological well-being, loneliness, anger management in deaf children. This research was a description of Correlation-Causal type such that the statistical population of the research included all deaf children in the Second period of primary school in the age group of 10-13 years old in the academic year of 2021-2022. For this respect, a sample of 211 children were selected by simple random sampling and the questionnaires of social skills, psychological well-being, loneliness and anger management were handed among them. The gathering data were analyzed using SPSS 26 and Smart PLS3, the Pearson correlation index and structural equations analysis. Data analysis showed that there is a significant correlation between social skills with loneliness (r=-0.407) and anger management (r=-0.18). The results also showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between loneliness and social skills. The psychological well-being variable also showed a significant correlation and relationship with the variables of this research, including feelings of loneliness and social skills (t=1.967) (ß=-0.155). The results of path analysis and determining the mediating role of psychological well-being showed that the indirect effect of psychological well-being on social skills was not significant from the path of anger management (ß=0.007), but it was significant from the path loneliness (ß=-0.039). Considering the role of controlling the feeling of loneliness in promoting psychological well-being and social skills in deaf children, therapeutic interventions and psychological and counseling training can be used in this field.