The effect of empathy training with e-content model on developing social relation of 9-year old boys

The present study has been done in order to investigate the effect of empathy training with econtent model on developing social relation of nine- year- old boys. Therefore, with multifluster sampling and random model, thirty students were chosen among the whole third grade students of elementary school in Karaj(in Iran), and they were placed in two groups of control and experimental. The research method is quasi-experimental in accordance with pre-test and post-test. The research instrument is social skill questionnaire of Matson. A pre-test was done by using the mentioned questionnaire before intervention. Then, empathy training with story and e-game was done for the experimental group during ten sessions of 45 minutes. A week after the last training session, the post-test was done for both groups by using the same questionnaire. For constant assessment, Again the experimental group answered social skill questionnaire 25 days after the post-test. The result showed that by using e-content, empathy training lead to social relation development between 9-year-old boys.