The effect to the sociometric status of second degree primary school students of the group guidance program in order to develop friendship abilities

In the research; the effect of the friendship ability training to thesociometric status of the secondary school students is examined. For this aim,in the second semester of 2004-2005 education year, sociometric technic isapplied to the sixth and seventh class students of Malatya Kemal Özalperprimary school. In the pre-test and final test, the students are asked to the tellthe names of three friends that they want to be with and they don?t want to bewith.As a result of teh pre-test, an experiment group which contains sixteenboy and girl students is set up based on volunteership. Also a control groupthat contains the same number of students is set up parallel to the experimentgroup. At the end of the pre-application sociometry, equal numbers ofpopular, average, controversial, rejected and neglected students are added tothe both two groups.An eight meeting and eight week group friendsihp ability trainingprogramme is applied to the experiment group. No application has been doneto control group. After the application sociometry has been applied again.Repeated Variancies Analysis has been used to compare the experiment andcontrol groups pre and final test measurements. In the research, the mistakerate was considered as .05After the f riendship ability training, the social preference dimension ofthe unpopular students in the experiment group has increased to considerabledegree.