Comparision of the effectiveness of logotherapy and Fordyce Happiness on reduction of elderly women’s depression in Tehran
Subject Areas : Educational Sciencezahra kashani 1 , Abdullah shafe abadi 2 , aboalfazl karami 3
1 - کارشناس ارشد مشاوره، دانشگاه آزاد واحد علوم و تحقیقات تهران
2 - استاد مشاوره دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی
3 - استادیار دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی.
Keywords: Depression, Logotherapy, Fordyce Happiness, elderly women,
Abstract :
The aim of this research was to compare the effectiveness of logo-therapy and Fordyce Happiness on reduction of elderly women’s depression in Tehran. For this reason elderly women who came to the Salamat House in region 1 and 12 of Tehran were chosen and tested by Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), they were 74 persons.Then 42 women were selected and placed randomly into tow experimental groups and one control group.One of the experimental groups was given 10 sessions logotherapy counseling and another experimental group was given 8 sessions Fordyce happiness training. The research design was pretest-posttest with control group. In order to analyze the collecting data, covariant and independent T tests were used.The results shows that: 1.The rate of depression in the group that had been consulted in logo-therapy sessions is significantly less than those that had not been in sessions. 2.The rate of depression in the group that had been taught Fordyce happiness is significantly less than those that had not been in sessions. 3.There is no significant difference between effectiveness of two approach: Logotherapy and Fordyce happiness
