A Self Control Technique Effect to Modify Aggressive Behavior of Mathayomseuksa 2 Students

Abstract

This research aimed to 1) study Mathayomsuksa 2 students’ aggressive behavior through self-control technique for behavior modification, 2) compare the effects of Mathayomseuksa 2 students’ aggressive behavior through self-control technique between before and after the treatment, and 3) compare the effects of Mathayomseuksa 2 students’ aggressive behavior between those through experimental group and those through control group. The samples were 16 Mathayomseuksa 2 students with high aggressive behavior screened through SDQ and purposive sampling technique under Yasothonpithayakhom School, Yasothon province in the 2010 academic year. They were broken in to 2 groups, each of 8 and group 1 for experiment group, group 2 for control group. The instruments composted of a set of questions on aggressive behavior, a form of aggressive behavior record, and a program for self-control. The statistics for data analyses were percentage, means, standard deviation, the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed-ranks test and the Mann-Whitney U test. The results revealed that Mathayom seuksa 2 students’ aggressive behavior under the experimental group was lower from the based line and also lower than that of the control group at the .05 level of statistical significance.