The effectiveness of the teaching positive thinking skills with emphasis on religious teachings happiness and Psychological well –being of students

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

Amir Yekanizad ¹ , Akbar Soleimannezhad ² , Norieh Hajizadeh ³ , Maryam Manzari ⁴

1 - M.A, Department of Psychology, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
2 - Assistant Prof, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Payame Noor, Tehran, Iran
3 - M.A. Department of Cilinical Psychology, Marand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marand, Iran
4 - M.A. Department of Educational Sciences, urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, urmia, Iran

Received: 2023-01-15 Accepted : 2023-03-17 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: happiness, religious teachings, positive thinking, psychological well –being,

Abstract :

  The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the teaching positive thinking skills with emphasis on religious teachings happiness and Psychological well –being of students. The study was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design, a control group and a three-month follow-up. The statistical population consisted of all Third year male students of high school in Khoy city in the academic year 2021-2022. The sample consisted of 40 people who were selected by multistage random cluster sampling and assigned in experimental and control groups (20 in each group). A pre-test was conducted for both groups. Positive thinking skills with emphasis on religious teachings were trained in 10 sessions of 90 minutes to the sample group. The end of the training period, a post-test was conducted. In order to collect data in this study, Oxford happiness questionnaire (Argyle & Lu, 1989) and Psychological well –being questionnaire (Ryff, 1989) were used. Data analysis was performed using analysis of repeated measures variance. The results of the data analysis showed that positive thinking with emphasis on religious teachings can increase the happiness and psychological well –being of children, and the subjects in the experimental group in the post test stage had significantly higher happiness and Psychological well –being (P <0.005). Also this effectivenes was stable at the follow-up 3-month stag.