خلاصة:
AIM: The goal of this study is to overview the effectiveness of cool‑down game and the reduction
of emotional and behavioral problems. The population of the study include 7–13‑year‑old kids living
in Isfahan.
METHODS: The research method was experimental with pretest, posttest, and control group.
Forty‑four children of 7–13 years old were selected through simple random sampling method from
the clients who had referred to the psychiatrists’ clinics and were diagnosed of having hyperactivity
disorder/attention deficit by the super specialist of child and adolescent psychiatrist, and they were
randomly divided into two groups of control and experiment, each with 22 individuals. The experiment
group was under sixteen 60 min training sessions by the help of cool‑down game. The research
tool was the Persian questionnaire of the strengths and difficulties (parent and teacher form) that
all participants complete it as pretest and posttest. The data were analyzed by covariance analysis.
RESULTS: The results showed that from the parent’s and the teacher’s point of view, the cool‑down
game has been effective in significant decrease of emotional and behavioral problems.
CONCLUSION: Therefore, this method can be used to reduce emotional and behavioral problems
of hyperactive children.
ملخص الجهاز:
Forty-four children of 7-13 years old were selected through simple random sampling method from the clients who had referred to the psychiatrists' clinics and were diagnosed of having hyperactivity disorder/attention deficit by the super specialist of child and adolescent psychiatrist, and they were randomly divided into Mo groups of control and experiment, each with 22 individuals.
: Effectiveness of the cool-down game in reducing emotional and behavioral problems questionnaire of strengths and difficulties in a sample of 6000 children for 6—12-year-old Iranian kids that its results showed the numbers of 0.
Thus, it shows that from the parent's point of view, the cool-down game has been effective in controlling the emotions of hyperactive children.
56 The cool-down game is effective in controlling of the 7—13-year-old hyperactive Isfahani children's emotions from the view of the teacher and parent.
Based on Tables 3 and 4, the emotion c ontrol of In Table 6, by use of covariance analysis, the effect of cool-down game on the hyperactive children's changes of behavioral problems from the parent's and teacher's point of view is evaluated.
Second hypothesis From the viewpoint of parent and teacher, cool-down game is effective in reducing the behavioral problems of 7—13-year-old hyperactive children.
According to Tables 5 and 6, the findings show that the cool-down game, in the parent's and teacher's view, has been significantly effective in reducing the behavioral International Journal of Educational and Psychological Researches problems of hyperactive children under study.