Assessing the Impact of an emotional intelligence training prevention program for developing emotional awareness skills among divorced families children

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine if the children of divorced families who participated in the emotional intelligence preventive training program show development in the emotions awareness skills; study sample consisted 20 children from divorced families (8 to 10) years in primary schools for the city of Ouargla, They have been division to experimental and a control groups, The instruments were emotional intelligence questionnaire (TEIQue-CSF) after its development to used in the Algerian environment and the emotional intelligence preventive training program, the experimental group participated in a 33 stand training during 15 Week, Assessment the impact of the program on the development of emotions awareness skills it was done by pre-test and post-test immediately and by one month after the end of the program, The data were analysed by mean, standard deviation, independent sample t-test and paired sample t-test, after the intervention the emotions awareness mean scores of the group experimental was higher than the control group in the post-test with a statistical significance (0.01 = α), the mean scores of the experimental group in the post-test higher than the mean scores of pre-test which is statistically significant (0.01 = α). Results were discussed and put some theoretical concepts that will improve the psychological well-being of the children of divorced families