Effectiveness of social- emotional skills training on thecomponents of emotional intelligence and self- esteem offemale blind student

Blindness causes many changes in students' lifestyles and causes some psychologicaland social problems. The aim of this study was to investigate the Effectiveness of social- emotional skillstraining on emotional intelligence and self-esteem of blind students.

The research design was quasi experimental and was a pre-test-post-test and follow-up designwith a control group. The statistical population included all blind students of the combined and exceptionalschools of Sari, who were studying in the academic year of 2018-2019 and in the middle school years, andthey selected by targeted sampling method and replaced by random sampling in the experiment and controlgroups. In the pre-posttest participants, using the Sybershring Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (1996)and Cooper smith Self-esteem Inventory (1967) was evaluated. The experimental group was taught in 12sessions of social-emotional skills Training. Whereas, the control group did not receive any training. Thedata collected were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance.

The results of multivariate analysis of covariance test showed that in the post-intervention phase,the mean score of emotional intelligence and self-esteem of the experimental group was significantly higherthan the control group (P <0.0001).

The social-emotional skills training program improved the emotional intelligence and selfesteemof blind adolescents; therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to variables such as emotionalintelligence and self-esteem and plan to provide social-emotional skills training to this group of People areespecially important.