فاعلية برنامج تدريبي قائم على نظرية روتر للتعلم الاجتماعي المعرفي في خفض سلوك امتثال طفل المرحلة الابتدائية : دراسة تجريبية على عينة من الأطفال (6-10) سنوات ببلدية سيدي عقبة
The present study aims to test the efficacy of a training program, that was built on a social cognitive theoretical basis from Julian Rotter's social learning theory, in order to reduce conformity behavior of primary school children to their peer groups. To do this, we started by postulating a set of six hypotheses; the first one related to revealing the level of conformity displayed by children to their peer groups, the second hypothesis concentrating on differences in conformity, in the pre measurements linked to sex and age, the third was oriented towards finding about differences between the repetitive measurements (pre, post, and follow up), the fourth and fifth hypotheses searched whether there were intervening variables relating to age, sex, intelligence level, social and cultural level of parents, in the post and follow up measurements, the six and last hypothesis measuring the size of the program impact on reducing conformity behavior. To test the study hypotheses, we followed the experiment method based on the repetitive measurement design, which is considered as one of the non parametric designs concerning small size samples that were chosen in a stratified haphazard manner, while in the second step, it was chosen in a purposeful manner, with the sample numbering 37 children in the first step, to drop in the second step, to 22 children who satisfied the study requirements, and to end up with 18 children who showed commitment to attend the training program sessions. In order to apply the program and attain its desired goals we relied on the following four research tools; Asch's Social Conformity Expreiment Test, Goodenough's Intelligence Test, the scientific observation, the Training Program which was built on the bases of the pilot study in which the principles of Rotter's cognitive social learning theory were experimentally tested. In the end the research reached the following results: 1) Primary school children showed a high level of conformity to their peer groups. 2) There were no differences, in pre measurement, in the level of conformity related to sex among children of the experimental group, but there were differences related to age in favor of the 6-7-8 years age group. 3) There were differences between means of repetitive measurements the (pre, post, follow up) in conformity among children of the experimental group in favor of the premeasurement. 4) The were no differences, in post measurement, in the level of conformity related to sex, age, intelligence, and social-cultural level of parents. 5) There were no differences, in the follow up measurement, in the level of conformity of children of the experimental group related to sex, age, intelligence, and social-cultural level of parents. 6) The impact of the training program was important and resulted in a marked reduction of the level of conformity of the experimental sample. (Author’s abstract)