Comparison of communication skills and feelings of loneliness in children with conduct disorder and normal children

mona mohammadi¹ niloofar mikaeili²

1) PhD Student of General Psychology Department of Psychology and Education, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran
2) Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology and Education, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

IOI Code : XHEB-KAKKA
Publication : 3nd National Conference on Clinical Psychology of Children and Adolescents(cpcauma3.ir)
Abstract :
    The purpose of this research was to compare communication skills and feelings of loneliness in children with conduct disorder and normal children. The present research method was causal-comparative. The statistical population of the research included students with behavioral disorders and normal elementary school students in District 2 of Ardabil city in the academic year of 1402-1401. According to education statistics, there were 20,792 students. Of these, 1,250 students have behavioral disorders and 19,542 are normal students. The sampling method of the current research was done in a systematic random way. 35 students with behavioral disorders and 35 healthy students were selected. The measurement tools in this research were done through communication skills questionnaire and loneliness questionnaire. To test the research hypotheses, statistical tests, multivariate covariance analysis and data analysis were performed using SPSS 25 software. The results showed that there is a significant difference between the dimensions of communication skills and feelings of loneliness between two groups of normal children and children with behavioral disorders (p<0.05) and the average scores of the assumed variables among the samples of children with disorders. The behavior of most children is normal.

Keywords : communication skills loneliness children conduct disorder