پژوهشهای علوم شناختی و رفتاری (May 2020)
Evaluate the Effectiveness of Theater Therapy on Self-Control, Adaptive Social Functioning and Computer Game Addiction of Game Addicted Students
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of theater therapy on self-control, social and adaptive performance and dependence on computer games of game-dependent students, which was conducted in a quasi-experimental design. The statistical population consisted of all students studying in the first year of high school in Isfahan in the academic in 2018-2019, who obtained more than 50 marks from Farhadi (2017) researcher-made computer game addiction researcher-made questionnaire. Out of 150 people from the mentioned community, 30 people were purposefully selected and randomly divided into two groups of 15 people. Participants in both groups completed Tangney self-control questionnaire (2004), Price et all Social Performance Scale (2002) and Farhadi Computer Game Addiction Questionnaire (2017). Theatrical therapy sessions were held in 8 90-minute group sessions per week for the experimental group; But the participants in the control group did not receive any intervention until the end of the follow-up phase. After completing the training course and also 3 months after the post-test, both groups were re-assessed. Analysis of variance with repeated measures and SPSS 24 software were used to analyze the data. The results showed that theater therapy increased the level of self-control and adaptive social performance in students and reduced computer game addiction in this group and the results were stable in the quarterly follow-up period (p<0.05). The results of the present study emphasize the importance of using theater therapy in order to improve self-control, adaptive social functioning and reduce the symptoms of students' play addiction.
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