The Effectiveness of Group Logotherapy on Resilience, Quality of Life and Expectancy of Women with Prostitution History
Subject Areas : women healthNarges Parsamehr 1 , محمدرضا تمنائی فر 2
1 - M.A in General Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran. narges.parsamehr76@gmail.com
2 - دانشگاه کاشان
Keywords: Expectancy, Group Logotherapy, Quality of Life, Resilience,
Abstract :
Introduction: Considering that group meaning therapy can be effective in improving the injuries and problems of women with a history of prostitution, the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of group meaning therapy on resilience, quality of life, and life expectancy in women with a history of prostitution. Research Methods: This semi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group and follow-up 2 month. The statistical population of the present study was women with prostitution history in Tehran city in 2024. In the first stage, the number of 34 women with purposeful sampling was selected and then randomly divided into one experimental group (17 women) and one control group (17 women) were replaced and experimental underwent 8 sessions of 90 minutes group logotherapy, but the control group received no training and remained in the waiting list. To collect data resilience scale of Connor and Davidson, quality of life-BRIEF of World Health Organization and adult dispositional hope scale of Snyder and et al. Data analysis was performed using SPSS-28 software with analysis of variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni. Results: The results of the study showed that of group logotherapy had a significant effect on resilience, quality of life and expectancy and this effect was stable in the follow-up phase follow up stage (P<0.05). Conclusion: Based on the present findings, it can be concluded that group logotherapy in increase resilience, quality of life and expectancy in women with prostitution history. Therefore, group logotherapy can be used to improve the personality, cognitive and emotional problems of women with history of prostitution.
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