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Abstract
The main aim of the present study was to:
Evaluate the effect of psychoeducational program on aggressive behavior and self-esteem among foster care children.
The main results of this study:
• More than half of the studied sample were males (54.9), 58.8% of them were in age ranged between 9:12 years old, and all children were in primary school.
• More than half of the studied sample was foundling (50.9%), while 17.6 of children entered foster care due to parent separation (divorce), and orphans were about one third of foster children (31.37%).
• Mean score for physical aggression was higher among males than females (43.46 ± 7.46 & 36.30 ± 6.73 respectively); while mean score for verbal aggression was higher among females than males (28.91 ± 2.48 & 28.11 ± 1.23 respectively).
• Mean scores for verbal and physical aggression were higher among children which entry foster care for reason of parent separation (divorce) than orphans and foundling children (29.12 ± 0.80 & 41.50±9.69 respectively).
• Foster females had higher mean score for self-esteem than males’ foster children, and there was highly statistically significant difference between gender and nearly all subitems of self-esteem at baseline assessment.
• Children who entry foster care for reason of parent separation (divorce) had lower mean score of self-esteem.
• There was significant negative correlation between aggressive behavior and self-esteem among foster care children at baseline assessment (r= - 0.33 at p = 0.01).
• There were highly statistically significant differences in all types of aggressive behavior between at baseline assessment and post implementation of the program (P=0.0001).
• There were highly statistically significant differences in all types of aggressive behavior between immediate post implementation of the program and follow up after three months at (P=0.0001).
• There were highly statistically significant differences in all subitems of self-esteem between baseline assessment and post implementation of the program (P=0.0001).
• Nearly most foster children had low level of self-esteem at baseline assessment (92.1%); while after implementation of program about 90.2% of them had high self-esteem. More than two third of foster children (84.3%) had high self-esteem after 3 months of implementation of the program (follow up).