MAHNAZ ALI AKBARI DEHKORDI; mozhgan bitaneh
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Objective: Psychological capital can strengthen people's sense of self-efficacy, hope of life, resilience, and optimism. therefore the present study was conducted aiming to investigate effectiveness of psychological capital elements training on psychological flexibility and psychological distress on ...
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Objective: Psychological capital can strengthen people's sense of self-efficacy, hope of life, resilience, and optimism. therefore the present study was conducted aiming to investigate effectiveness of psychological capital elements training on psychological flexibility and psychological distress on the women with breast cancer. Method: It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest with control group. The statistical population of the current study was the women with breast cancer referring to Shohadaye Tajrish hospital in the city of Tehran in three months of the spring of 2018-19. 30 women with breast cancer were selected through with conscious and voluntary consentand they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 15). The women present in the experimental group received psychological capital elements training (Akhondi, 2017) ten ninety-minute sessions of training psychological capitals during ten weeks. The applied questionnaires in this study included the questionnaire of psychological flexibility (Denis and Vanderwal, 2010) and the questionnaire of psychological fusion (Kesler et.al, 2003). The data from the study were analyzed through MANCOVA method. Findings: The results showed that psychological capital elements training has had significant effect on psychological flexibility and psychological distress in the women with breast cancer (p<0.001) in a way that this therapy was able to lead to the improvement of psychological flexibility and decrease of psychological distress in the women with breast cancer. Conclusion: Considering the study results, psychological capital elements training can be used as an efficient method to improve psychological flexibility and the decrease of psychological distress on the women with breast cancer through applying the concepts such as resilience, hopefulness, self-efficacy and optimism.
Mahsa Naghavi; Esmail Asadpour; Abdolraheem Kasaee
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Objective: The main aim of present study was to determine the effectiveness of group counselling based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on increasing psychological flexibility and marital intimacy in infertile women. Method: This study was a semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design and ...
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Objective: The main aim of present study was to determine the effectiveness of group counselling based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on increasing psychological flexibility and marital intimacy in infertile women. Method: This study was a semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design and control group. The Statistical population of this research includes all the infertile women who referrd to Omid Infertility Center in Tehran. 50 infertile women were selected by convenience sampling method from the statistical population. Then 30 infertile women were chosen by simple random sampling and were assigned to the intervention and controle group. Then both groups were evaluated using Bagarozzi Marital Intimacy Questionnaire (2001) and Bond Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (2011) in posttest. The data were analyzed by MANCOVA method. Findings: Statistical data analysis illustrated Group Counselling based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy that amounts of Psychological flexibility and marital intimacy were significantly increased in experimental than control group (P<0/05). Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that group counseling based on acceptance and commitment therapy can be used as an effective psychological intervention on the psychological flexibility and marital intimacy of Infertile Women.
