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INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
JUNE 2011
VOL 3, NO 2
applied for children and adolescents of schools, students of universities, centers for social
services, and private clinics [8].
Also, In Iran, some researches on the bilateral effects of self-esteem and social adjustment have
been done which among all the impression of self-esteem on students’ social adjustment with the
classes’ atmosphere in com province was measured by Falsafi Nejad who found that the selfesteem
[positively] impressed the adolescents’ social adjustment with classrooms’ atmosphere
[9].
In his research, Sedighi concluded that behavioral-cognitive instructions of self-esteem would
have not increased the students’ social adjustment [10].
Regarding the above mentioned cases, the moil purpose of this research is to inspect the
effectiveness of two approaches of behavioral and behavioral-cognitive of self-esteem on social
adjustment of female students resident in the dormitory, and also giving answer for the following
questions:
A) Is the behavioral approach effective on enhancing social adjustment?
B) Is the behavioral-cognitive approach effective on social adjustment?
C) Which of these two approaches are more effective in enhancing social adjustment?
The Research Method
Based on semi- experimental method of pretest and posttest types with experimental and control
groups, the scheme of the research is a follows:
Groups Pretest Independent variable Posttest Follow- up
E1 T1 X1 T2 T3
E2 T1 X1 T2 T3
C T1 - T2 T3
• Sampling population & Sampling Method In this research, the statistical universe is the
female students’ entire resident in University of Sasha dormitory, i.e., 2532 persons.
The sampling method is voluntary introduction, e.g., from amongst the students resident in
University of Isfahan dormitory, 30 volunteers were selected through interview as the sample,
then by lot, ten persons were assigned to experimental group No.1 (Behavioral-cognitive group),
ten to experimental group No-2 (Behavioral group), and ten to control group.
Instruments
For inspecting the rate of the students, self- esteem, Pope and his collogues inventory of selfesteem
was applied in this research. The inventory has 60 questions and assesses self-esteem
through the give scales of general, educational, familial, physical, and social; furthermore, has
lying measuring scale. Reliability coefficient of the research has been calculated by Ghaffari and
Ramezani (1994) as 0.76, by Emami and Fatehi Zadeh [11] as 0.85, and by Mohaghegh as 0.73
[12].
For inspecting the rate of students’ social adjustment, the test of social adjustment provided by
researchers. The test has 90 questions and give scales of inter- individuals adjustment, personal
adjustment, educational adjustment, intimate relations adjustment, and mood adjustment.
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