Investigating the Role of Communication Skills and Cognitive Empowerment in the predictability of Social Adjustment of Primary School Teachers in Saghez

Document Type : research paper

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1 M. A., elementary education, Islamic Azad University of Saghez, Kurdistan, Iran

2 Assistant professor, educational psychology, Farhangian University, Sanandaj, Iran

Abstract

The aim of this correlational study was to investigate the role of communication skills and cognitive empowerment in the predictability of social adjustment of primary school teachers in Saghez in the academic year of 2019-2020.                  The statistical population of this study consisted of all teachers in Saghez in the academic year of 2020-21(N=850). From among the population, 288 teachers were selected as the sample based on availability sampling method. To collect data, Spritzer’s Psychological Empowerment Questionnaire, Jarabak’s Communication Skills and SAS Pickel and Wiseman’s Social Adjustment Questionnaire were used. Descriptive statistics including mean, frequency percentage, standard deviation and inferential statistics including Pearson correlation and simple linear regression were used to analyze the data. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between communication variables with social adjustment and cognitive empowerment with social adjustment. Communication skills and cognitive empowerment variables can also predict social adjustment.

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