Evaluating the Psychological Methods of Teaching Self-confidence in Stories of Iranian Children's Stories

Subject Areas : Educational Psychology

Vahid Khodaei Majd ¹

1 - فارغ‌التحصیل دوره دکتری رشته روان‌شناسی

Received: 2015-10-17 Accepted : 2016-03-01 Published : 2016-05-21

Keywords: self-esteem, psychological method, self-confidence, positive thinking, sympathy, narration-therapy,

Abstract :

Self-confidence and high self-reliance are among the main factors of prosperity and growth in life, and psychotherapist suggest different methods to reinforce them using the stories in childhood. Therefore, this research aimed at recognizing and evaluating the psychological methods of teaching self-confidence that are concealed in Iranian stories. The research is descriptive and library-based. To analyze the data, content-analysis was conducted. Considering the large population of the study, using purposeful sampling, 141 Iranian stories for B and C age groups that involve 7-11 years old children, were selected as study samples. To evaluate the selected stories, a researcher-made Matrix, which included the main methods of developing self-confidence, was used. Also, Milles and Huberman’s interpretive approach, which is one of the main scales of content analysis, was employed. At the same time, in order to determine the relation between the variables, Kay Skoer’s statistical test was used. The results show that different psychological methods are used in Iranian stories in order to develop self-confidence in children, among which we can refer to reinforcing positive thinking, self-steem, nourishing sympathy, nourishing creativity, helping self-identification and self-acceptance, reducing of humility sensation, and adjusting megalomania

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