فاعلية برنامج في تحسين الانتباه إلى اللحظة الراهنة لدى عينة من أطفال الروضة

Abstract EN

Background: The study drives to Preparing a counseling program for improving the Attention to the current moment in a sample of the kindergartens.

Sample: The research sample consists of 20 children, aged (5- 6) yrs.

old, selected purposely from Zahrat Al-Madaaen School (El-Nozha directorate) and divided equally into the control group (n=10) and the experimental group (n=10).

Tools: The research tools was Scale of Attention to the Present moment for the Kindergartens (by researchers), and The Socio-economic Cultural Level Scale (by Mohamed Safaan & Duaa Khatab, 2016), and The Colored Subsequent Arrays Test (by John Ravin), A Counseling Program for Improving Attention to the current moment Kindergarten Children' (by researchers).

Result: The experimental group’s average scores are higher than the average scores of the control group regarding the post-measurement of the program on the scale of mindfulness for children (awareness and description, acceptance and non-judgment, attention to the current moment); The experimental group’s average scores are higher than the average scores of the control group regarding the pre/ post measurement of application of the program on the scale of mindfulness for children (awareness and description, receptivity and non-judgment, attention to the current moment, and the full score).

Results: The convergence of the mean scores of the control group regarding the (pre/ post) measurements of the program on the scale of mindfulness for children (awareness and description, receptivity and non-judgment, attention to the current moment, and the full score); which confirms the verification of the validity of the third hypothesis; The convergence of the average scores of the experimental group regarding the post/ follow up measurements of the program regarding the scale of mindfulness for children (attention, receptivity, awareness, and the full score).