Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
2 Professor, Department of Psychology, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Tabriz Branch, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
Abstract
The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of critical thinking training on attention, cognitive processing and emotion regulation strategies of children with special learning disorders. The research method was a semi-experimental research with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group. The statistical population included all students aged 9 to 12 who referred to the Center for Special Learning Problems in the third district of Tabriz in the second half of 1400. Among them, 40 people were selected by purposive sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group. The tools used in the research were attention and cognitive processing and emotion regulation questionnaires. Research hypotheses were analyzed using multivariate covariance analysis. The results of covariance analysis showed that the significance level in all comparisons was less than 0.05, which showed that the critical thinking training intervention had a significant effect on attention, cognitive processing and emotion regulation (p<0.05). Examining the effect size showed that the biggest difference was observed in the total score of cognitive processing with a coefficient of 0.710. The result of the present study lacked a long-term follow-up study. Therefore, it is suggested to investigate the effectiveness of these interventions in the form of long-term follow-up in future researches and to teach critical thinking training as a new approach alongside educational interventions to the trainers of special learning disorders centers so that these trainers can use these strategies in their interventions.
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