Educational Intervention Program Based on Creative Writing for Emotional Self-Regulation Skills Development and Cognitive Flexibility among 3rd Grade Students

Abstract

In schools, creative writing can be considered an important and valuable part of the learning and personal development process, because in addition to improving literacy skills, students through creative writing can explore themselves, improve their intrapersonal intelligence, express their emotions more effectively and improve their well-being. Whether it is poetry, short stories, journaling, or even songwriting, creative writing provides students a safe space to explore and express their emotions, helping them to process complex feelings in a constructive manner. Also, through creative writing students can develop their cognitive flexibility and emotional self-regulation.The aim of this research was to develop and implement an educational intervention program based on creative writing on the development of self-regulation skills, respectively cognitive flexibility among 3rd students. Following the re-evaluation of the students who benefited from the proposed educational intervention program, improvements were noted in both cognitive flexibility and emotional self-regulation. The proposed educational intervention program demonstrated its effectiveness, obtaining a d between .79 and 4.67, which, according to Cohen’s criteria, shows that this program had a strong to very strong effect.