The effect of psychological well-being training on life expectancy, psychological well-being and social anxiety in mothers of students with mentally retarded

Subject Areas : social psychology

Gholamreza Sanagouye Moharer ¹ , Mahmoud Shirazi ² , Alireza Mirsharafoldin ³ , Zahra Miri Ghaleno ⁴

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Educational Sciences and Psychology College, Sistan and Baluchestan University, Zahedan, Iran
3 - PhD Student, Department of Psychology, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran
4 - PhD Student, Department of Psychology, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran

Received: 2020-07-13 Accepted : 2020-12-05 Published : 2020-11-21

Keywords: life expectancy# psychological well-being# social anxiety, psychological well-being training#,

Abstract :

The aim of this research was determine the effect of psychological well-being training on life expectancy, psychological well-being and social anxiety. This study was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The research population was mothers of students with mentally retarded in Varamin suburb in academic years of 2019-2020. The research sample was 50 people who were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly replaced in two equal groups. The experimental group received 10 sessions of 90-minutes the psychological well-being training and the control group put on the waiting list for training. The research tools were the questionnaires of life expectancy (Snyder & et al, 1991), psychological well-being (Ryff, 1989) and social anxiety (Connor & et al, 2000) and data were analyzed by the multivariate analysis of covariance method in SPSS-25 software. The findings showed that the experimental and control groups had significant difference in terms of all three variables of life expectancy, psychological well-being and social anxiety (p < 0/001). In the other words, this training method led to increase life expectancy and psychological well-being and decrease social anxiety in mothers of students with mentally retarded. Regarded to results health expert and therapists can use from psychological well-being training to improve health-related traits in mothers of students with mentally retarded.

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