shahram ranjdoust; shahram iazdani
Abstract
Behavioral problems ofmentally retarded childrenare one of the most important human issuesand the most complex and difficult problems of children and young adults whichremain to the age of adulthood. On theother hand, studies of behavioral problems are primarily done withinstatistical classical ...
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Behavioral problems ofmentally retarded childrenare one of the most important human issuesand the most complex and difficult problems of children and young adults whichremain to the age of adulthood. On theother hand, studies of behavioral problems are primarily done withinstatistical classical models; while the relationship between psychologicalvariables is not so accurate. So the present paper examines the role ofself-efficacy, language development,and social skills on behavior problems of mentallyretarded children as reported by teachers using flexible procedures. For so doing, all the mentally retarded boy students of East Azerbaijan in the academic year 1391-92formed the statistical population of this research;from among whom 28 students were selected by cluster sampling and the pertinent teacher filled four questionnaires for each student (GeneralSelf-Efficacy of Sheerer & et al.; Language Development of Newcamber & Hamyl; Social Skills of Gresham & Elliot; and BehavioralProblems of Rutter). In this study, the content validity was confirmed by the experts in the field using Delphi method, and also the rate of Chronbach alpha for all the variables was reported to be above 85% which suggests a good reliability for the instruments. The results of fuzzy linear regression analysisshowed that language development has almost no role in the behavioral problems of the students; butthe general self-efficacyand social skills reducebehavioral problems ofmentally retarded students. Findings ofthis research might be helpful in solving the behavioral problems of children with mentalretardation.