The effectiveness of acceptance/commitment therapy on adjustment and quality of life of disabled persons in welfare organization.
Subject Areas : Journal of Educational PsychologyMozhdeh Saeidi 1 , Javad Khalatbari 2
1 - Expert Welfare Prevention of Tonekabon
2 - Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University Tonekabon Branch, Tonekabon, Iran
Keywords: Quality of Life, Adjustment, acceptance and commitment theraoy, disabled persons,
Abstract :
The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of act on adjustment and quality of life of disabled persons in welfare organization . The statistic population of this research consist of all disabled persons in Tonakaboon welfare organization and the sample consist of 30 disabled persons who selected in random sample.and randomly assigned to experimental and control group . The experimental group have acceptance and commitment therapy and the control group had no therapy. For collecting data we usedbell adjustment questioner(1969)and world health organization quality of life which was translated and validated by the Nejat and colleages (1385). For data analysis the method of Maltiraviareo analysis of covariance(Mancova).The result showed the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy in improving adjustment and quality of life of disabled persons in welfare organization.