Emotional Intelligence, Emotion Regulation, Empathy Skills
Conditions
Keywords
emotion-focused therapy, group social work, child in need of protection, emotional intelligence, emotion regulation, empathic tendency
Brief summary
The general objective of this study is to determine the effects of an emotion-focused therapy-based group social work intervention on the emotion regulation skills, emotional intelligence, and empathic tendency levels of children aged 9-11 years in need of protection and living in a children's home complex, and to explore the participants' experiences of the group intervention. The independent variable of the study is the emotion-focused therapy-based group social work intervention. The dependent variables are the children's emotion regulation skills, emotional intelligence, and empathic tendency levels. Within the framework of the stated general objective, the quantitative questions addressed in the study are as follows: 1. Is there a significant difference between the emotion regulation skills, emotional intelligence, and empathic tendency scores between the experimental and control groups before the intervention? 2. Is there a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of the emotion regulation skills, emotional intelligence, and empathic tendency of the participants in the experimental group after the intervention? 3. After the intervention, is there a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores on emotion regulation skills, emotional intelligence, and empathic tendency of the participants in the control group? 4. After the intervention, is there a significant difference between the post-test scores on emotion regulation skills, emotional intelligence, and empathic tendency of the participants in the experimental group and the post-test scores on emotion regulation skills, emotional intelligence, and empathic tendency of the participants in the control group?
Detailed description
-Participants in the study completed the Children's Emotion Regulation Scale (CRS), the BarOn Emotional Intelligence Test Child and Adolescent Form and the KA-Si Empathic Tendency Scale Child Form before the study began. Following the 12-session group process, the same scales were completed for both the experimental and control groups, and differences between the experimental and control groups were examined. Some participants had difficulty reading and understanding the scale items during the pretest and posttest evaluation processes. Both tests were administered one-on-one with the participants, and those who did not understand were read one by one. The quantitative data collected were then entered into SPSS.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALgroup social work practice based on emotion-focused therapy
Emotion-focused therapy, a therapy approach that prioritizes emotions over others, advocates for increasing emotional intelligence, which refers to using emotions as a developmental tool without being dominated by them (Greenberg, 2004b). Emotion-focused therapy, which places emotions at the center, is a practice that has recently become widespread in our country. It is stated that this approach helps individuals identify/be aware of their emotions, express them, make sense of them, appropriately modify/transform them, and use them in a healthy way; as a result, individuals are more successful in taking control of their lives (Greenberg 2010). From this perspective, it is believed that working with children in need of protection using this approach will be beneficial for the children themselves. The results of this study suggest that it may contribute to introducing an emotion-focused perspective into rehabilitative work with children under protection.
Sponsors
aile ve sosyal hizmetler bakanlığı
Selcuk University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Investigator)
Intervention model description
This study employed a mixed method approach, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, to investigate the effects of a group social work intervention based on emotion-focused therapy on the emotion regulation skills, emotional intelligence, and empathic tendencies of children under protection in a children's home. In this context, an exploratory sequential design was used in this study. In this study, the qualitative data were analyzed in line with the quantitative data analysis, and the final conclusion was drawn in the discussion section based on the results of both analyses.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
9 Years to 11 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* • Be between 9 and 11 years old * Be able to read and write * Have no known traumatic event/abuse history * Have been accepted to the organization for at least 3 months (have adapted to the organization) * Have no severe/advanced psychiatric disability/diagnosis * Have been declared suitable by the group leader * Be willing to participate in the study
Exclusion criteria
* • Being outside the 9-11 age range * Being admitted to the institution less than 3 months ago or not yet having adapted to the institution * Being a foreign national * Not knowing Turkish * Having a history of abuse * Being hospitalized * Being a child who left the institution without permission * Being in the final stages of transfer and return to family
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BarOn Emotional Intelligence Scale Child and Adolescent Form | up to 12 weeks after registration | This is a 60-item scale, with a minimum score of 60 and a maximum of 240. Higher scores indicate better outcomes, as they indicate improved emotional intelligence skills. |
| Emotion Regulation Scale for Children | up to 12 weeks after registration | The scale consists of 29 items and four subscales: anger (9 items), fear (8 items), sadness (7 items), and excitement (5 items). The lowest score is 29; the highest is 116. Higher scores indicate better outcomes. |
| KA-SI Empathic Tendency Scale - Child Form | up to 12 weeks after registration | The scale consists of 13 items. The minimum score is 13, and the maximum score is 52. As the scale scores increase, empathic tendency increases, and as they decrease, empathic tendency decreases. |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Outcome results
None listed