The effect of bibliotherapy intervention program on self esteem of gifted primary school children

Abstract EN

The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of bibliotherapy intervention program on self esteem of gifted primary school children.

A total of 67 primary school children participated in the present study.

Participants met the criteria for giftedness by using Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of gifted children (Mourad, In this Volume).

Children were randomly classified into two groups: experimental (n= 34 , 20 boys , 14 girls) and control (n= 33 , 21 boys and 12 girls ).

ANCOVA and Repeated Measures Analyses were employed for data analysis.

Findings from this study indicated the effectiveness of the program employed in self esteem in the target children.

On the basis of the findings, the study supports the idea of bibliotherapy as a powerful intervention for children