Enhancing children's well‐being using Malaysian‐adapted version Super Skills for life (M‐SSL) among primary school children in Malaysia
With the increasing prevalence of mental health issues among children, there is a growing need to implement school‐based preventive programs for emotional well‐being in Malaysia. Super Skills for Life (SSL) is a transdiagnostic preventive program designed based on the cognitive‐ behavioral ther...
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Wiley Periodicals LLC.
2024
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/45016/3/Enhancing%20children%27s.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/45016/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pits.23258 https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.23258 |
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| Summary: | With the increasing prevalence of mental health issues
among children, there is a growing need to implement
school‐based preventive programs for emotional well‐being
in Malaysia. Super Skills for Life (SSL) is a transdiagnostic
preventive program designed based on the cognitive‐
behavioral therapy concept to address emotional problems
among children. This study examined the effectiveness of
the M‐SSL program in reducing depressive and anxiety
symptoms as well as other psychological issues such as
social competency, worries, cognitive and emotional
regulation in a sample of Malaysian children between the
ages of 10 and 12. A quasi‐experimental preintervention
and postintervention research design was conducted. A
total of 165 primary school children (M = 10.9, SD = 0.72)
were recruited with 88 of them randomly assigned to the
intervention group. All of them were asked to complete a
questionnaire consisting of demographic data, the Centre
for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale Revised,
Spencer Children's Anxiety Scale, Strength and Difficulties
Questionnaires, Social Skills Questionnaires and Cognitive
Emotional Regulation Questionnaires. Children in the
M‐SSL group significantly reported lower levels of depressive scores during follow‐up assessment compared to the children in the control group. They also showed significant improvement in their depressive subscale scores, social worries scores, and the way they perceived an event as compared to the control group. These findings provide
initial support for the effects of M‐SSL, suggesting that it is a valuable resource for the prevention of depressive
symptoms and for improving social worries among children. |
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