Abstract:

Based on some variables, the aim of this study is to examine the degree of the impact of the educational intervention programme, which is designed to reduce the level of anger and aggression in primary school children attending 4th and 5th forms. The study was implemented at Ziyamet and Yenierenköy Primary schools in 2010-2011 academic years. Instruments like aggression scales and student information forms have been used in order to collect some evidence about the degree of anger and aggression behaviour in children. This study is an experimental one with experimental and controlled groups and is based on the model of pre-tests and final tests. Eight different educational session programmes have been applied to the experimental group. At the end of the programme, the aggression scale has been re-applied to the experimental and controlled groups and the meaning of differences in the results of former and final tests have been analysed by the t-test. In order to bring out whether or not the level of aggression in children show meaningful differences according to the variables at hand, t-test, for gender differences, and Anova test, for class differences, have been used. The results have both shown that at the end of the educational programme, the level of aggression in the experimental group declined more meaningfully when compared to the degree of children in the controlled group. On the other hand, the level of aggression differs more significantly according to class and age, but shows no difference at all when gender was taken into consideration. Based on the findings of the programme, at the end of the study, suggestions about decreasing anger and aggression in children have been made

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