The Effectiveness of Self-Management Strategies in Effective Use of Leisure Time to Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
Evgin Çay - Balıkesir University - ORCID
Müzeyyen Eldeniz Çetin - Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University - ORCID
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of self management strategies in effective use of leisure time to individuals with intellectual disabilities. The additional aim of the study is also to determine the effectiveness of the self management strategies in use of self management strategies who individuals with intellectual disability. In addition, sustained attention, persistence, generalization and social comparison were also examined in the study. The social validity of the study was examined through subjective assessment, social comparison and permanency. In the research, instead of single-subject research methods was used inter-subject multiple interrogation model. The data were analyzed by graphical analysis method. Three individuals at the age of 15 years old with mild intellectual disability participated in the study. In addition, 15 individuals with normal development participated in the research during the collection of social comparison data. The dependent variables of the research are the skills of effective use of leisure time, self management strategies and sustained attention. The independent variable of the research is self management strategies. The findings of effectiveness show that self management strategies is effective in the acquiring the effective use of leisure time and use of self management strategies. In addition, participants maintained the 1, 3 and 4 weeks after target behaviors acquired and they have generalised the target behaviors to different people, places and tools. Findings of social validity based on subjective assessment show that the parents of the participants express positive opinions about the study. The results of the the social comparison findings showed that participants perform at a lower level of performance compared to their peers before the research and at the end of the research they performed at a similar level of performance. In addition, participants maintenanced their attentions while they concerned leisure time activity that choose them.
Keyword: Self-management strategy
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