EFFICIENCY OF THE SETRATEGIES OF THE POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN DEVELOPING SOCIAL TOLERANS AMONG ADVANCED SCOUT

Abstract

This study acquires its importance from the fact that it deals with social tolerance Advanced Scouts which is considered as one of the subjects of positive psychology

through verifying the following hypotheses: -

1. There are no statistically significant differences between the rank orders of the experimental group scares before and after programmed.
2. There are no statistically significant differences between the rank order of the experimental and control groups.

Experimental methodology is used to verify the study hypotheses. The sample consists of (30) Advanced Scouts who got less score on the social tolerance measure. The sample is chosen from AL Iraq preparatory school male in the city of Baquba. They are distributed randomly into two equal groups. Counseling program was used according to the strategies of positive psychology with experimental group while the control group is not exposed to such program

. Abdul Razaq scale social tolerance (2005) has been adopted and the researcher made certain modification to be adopted to preparatory school students. It is exposed to a number of experts to be used Validity and Reliability are also achieved

The strategies of positive psychology method are used. The    number of counseling session is (12) sessions. The validity of the program is achieved through exposing it to a number of experts.

In order to process data statistically, Pearson correlation coefficient, Smirnov Test, Mann – Whitney test, percentages are used.

It has been found out that:

• There are no statistically significant differences at 0.05 level of significance in favor of experimental group and counseling program.
• There are no statistically significant differences at 0.05 level of significance in the post test and in favor of the experimental group.