Eficacia de un curso de entrenamiento en habilidades sociales mediante técnicas cognitivo-conductuales para un mejor manejo de las emociones alternativas a la agresión y la prevención de la violencia en niños de sexto de educación básica de una unidad educativa pública del sur de Quito.

Abstract

In this research work, it is considered to measure, know and show the effectiveness of a training course in social skills through cognitive-behavioral techniques for a better management of emotions other than aggression and violence prevention. The group of participants was made up of children in sixth grade of basic education of an educational unit in the south of Quito. The investigation was four phases. The first was to evaluate the degree of social skills presented by the participants at the beginning of the program through psychometric scales. Secondly, a series of cognitive-behavioral techniques was applied to the group of participants in order to modify the selected variables. At the end of the intervention, as the third phase, the psychometric scales used at the beginning were applied again to know if there were changes in the level of the variables of interest. Finally, a statistical analysis was carried out in order to know, according to the results of the scales applied, the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral techniques to generate pro-social behaviors. For this, the student's t test of repeated measures was used in order to know if there was a significant change with respect to the improvement in social skills in the participants.