A research on the effect of negotiation (problem solving) and mediation training programme on the conflict resolutin skills,anger management skills and self respect level of the 9th grade students

The scope of this research is to observe the effects of the negotiation (problem solving) and peer mediation training programme which was applied to the 9th grade students, on the conflict resolution skills, anger management skills and self respect level of the students.Research has been carried out on two high schools which are affiliated to the Ministry of National Education during the 2006-2007 education period. There are 302 students in the experiment group and 180 in the control group. Pre-test, post-test, semi experimental design with the control group have been used within the research. Negotiation (problem solving) and mediation training has been provided to the students of the experiment group and the control group has not been provided training.Negotiation (problem solving) and peer mediation training programme has been applied for 2 hours on a weekly basis during 16 weeks. Training programme consists four parts which are; understanding the nature of the inter personal conflict, communication skills, anger management skills and resolution skills of inter personal conflicts.Within this research, ?Conflict Resolution Scale?, developed by Akbalık (2001), ?Situational-Constant-Anger Expression Inventory? adopted by Özer (1992) and ?Rosenberg Self Respect Scale?, adopted by Çuhadaroğlu (1986) were used as the data collection tool. Afterwards, ?Mediation Form? used in order to measure the effect of the negotiation (problem solving) and peer mediation training programme. Independent Samples t-test and ANCOVA applied to see if there is a significant difference between the conflict resolution skills, anger management skills and self respect level of experiment and control groups. Effect of the experimental process has observed by comparing the difference (gain) score of the experiment and control groups. In order to test of the effectiveness of the programme on implementing the mediation process and solving the peer conflicts, datas, which were collected with the mediation forms, have been tested by using frequency, percentage, average and ki-square.According to the results of the statistical analyses, it is determined that the conflict resolution skills of the experimental group, which was provided negotiation (problem solving) and peer mediation training programme, is more constructive than the control group. It is observed that the students who were provided the training are able to solve their conflicts by using the mediation and mediation is an effective method to solve conflicts constructively. A significant difference was found in, difference (gain) score and the comparison of the pre-test post test scores of the anger management skills of students. It is observed by comparing the pre-test, post test scores, self respect levels of the students of experiment group has increased.