Comparison of the effectiveness of metaphor therapy in social development on preschool children in family-like and daycare centers

maryam sharifi broojerdi¹ afsaneh khajvand khoshli² leila noroz pour³

1) main author
2) supervisor
3) advisor

Publication : 3rd International Conference On Research Science And Technology(3rstconf.com)
Abstract :
This study is comparison of the effectiveness of metaphor therapy in social development on pre-school children in family-like and daycare centers. The design is experimental pretest-posttest control-group. 32 children,16 from family-like centers and 16 from daycare centers were selected by convenience sampling method. First, Weinland s social development questionnaires were filled in by the educators of children. Then, half of the children who scored lower were selected as the experimental group and the other were assigned to the control group. Children in experimental group received metaphor therapy program of eight 45-minute sessions, whereas control group received no treatment. After the therapy sessions finished, the questionnaires were again answered by the educators. For the statistical analysis covariance test were used. Eta=0.92 suggests a significant difference between experimental and control groups in terms of the effectiveness of metaphor therapy in social development. Comparing the mean of social development for children in family-like centers and daycare centers revealed significant difference between the mean of attachment disorder for children in family-like centers and daycare centers. The results suggested the effectiveness of metaphor therapy in social development on children and the experimental groups showed improvement in the measured parameters compared to control groups in post-test phase.
Keywords : daycare centers; family-llike centers; metaphor therapy; social development.