Effectiveness Of EI Training on Anxiety and Aggression of Fifth/Sixth-Grade Female Students

The present study investigated the effectiveness of emotional intelligence training on anxiety and aggression among fifth and sixth-grade female students in Khomeinishahr in 2020-2021. This research was applied in terms of purpose and quasi-experimental in terms of data collection with pre-test, post-test and control groups. Using the available sampling method, the revised children's manifest anxiety questionnaire and Nelson (2000) aggression severity standard questionnaire were taken from two fifth and sixth-grade classes. Among these students, 30 whose anxiety and aggression scores were at the medium, or high level were selected. In addition, 15 students were randomly assigned to each experimental and control group. Then, they were subjected to the intervention for eight sessions derived from Bradberry and Graves' (2009) emotional intelligence training package and Wilding's (2010) emotional intelligence training book. They finally completed the post-test questionnaires. Given the data analysis results using SPSS software, emotional intelligence training effectively reduced the anxiety and aggression of fifth and sixth-grade female students in Khomeinishahr (P<0.01). Among the subscale of anxiety, it was effective on "The Worry/Oversensitivity factor" (P <0.01), but had no statistically significant effect on the "physiological factors" and "concentration anxiety factor" (P >0.05).  In addition, Also, at the error level of 0.05 on the subscale of aggression, ie "Frustration ", "physical aggression", " Peer Relationships" (P<0.05) and at the error level of 0.01 were effective on " Authority Relations" (P <0.01).