چکیده (انگلیسی):

The purpose of the present study is examination of the impact of the program “philosophy for children”
(p4c) on foster self-esteem in high school students in the first grade of district 14 of Tehran. This research was carried
out using semi-empirical method and utilizing the research design of preliminary and final test with control group and
without use of randomly selection. All students in the first grade of high school of district 14 of Tehran in 2013-2014
formed population of the study that among them 60 subjects were selected as sample through multi-stage cluster
sampling (n = 30 for control group and n=30 for experimental group). After holding desired training course, the cooper
smith self-esteem questionnaire was used to data collection, and to analyze the data, analysis method of covariance
was used. In general, findings of the study confirmed credibility and reliability of the philosophy for children program
in foster self-esteem in adolescents and its four components namely; general self-esteem , family self-esteem , social
self-esteem and education self esteem