effectiveness of positive group Training on increasing the happiness And Quality Of Life of women heads of households

Subject Areas : Woman and family

Vahid Mostafa Pour ^{1 *} , Farideh Hossein Sabet ² , Ahmad Borjali ³

1 - Master of Clinical Psychology, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2017-11-29 Accepted : 2018-05-21 Published : 2019-11-22

Keywords: happiness, quality of life, positive training, female-headed household,

Abstract :

This study aimed to investigate the effect of positive training on increase happiness and quality of life of women heads of households was covered by Imam Khomeini Relief Committee. The study was a quasiexperimental research and conducted through the pre-test, post-test, and follow up design with control group. to select a sample from the centers Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Sufian , a center mode available selected and then the center of female-headed households under 30 were select based on inclusion criteria and assigned to  the experimental and control group randomly (15 personseach group).  Both groups responded to the World Health Organization Quality of Life and Happiness Questionnaires. In later stages of the study, on the experimental group, 8 sessions of 90 minutes based on Positive training was carried out while the control group received no trainig and after end sessions both quality of life and happiness questionnaires as the posttest was conducted, Data obtained using analysis of covariance and dependent t-test were analyzed. The results of covariance indicated significant and considerable increase in the happiness and quality of life in the experimental as compared with the control group at the post-test stage. These results were maintained in the 30 days follow-up stage, too.  Overal results indicate that Positive training to happiness and quality of life of female-headed households has increased, based on the results of the present study, positive training can be used for improvement of happiness and quality of life in women heads of households.

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