Payame Noor University Health Psychology 2322-1283 10 38 2021 08 23 The Effectiveness of Psychological Capital Elements Training on Psychological Flexibility and Psychological Distress on the Women with Breast Cancer The Effectiveness of Psychological Capital Elements Training on Psychological Flexibility and Psychological Distress on the Women with Breast Cancer 7 22 7998 10.30473/hpj.2021.50016.4645 FA MAHNAZ ALI AKBARI DEHKORDI Professor, Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. Mozhgan Bitaneh PhD Student in General Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran. Journal Article 2020 12 01 <strong>Objective: </strong>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<strong> </strong>on psychological flexibility and psychological distress on the women with breast cancer. <strong>Method:</strong> 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<strong> </strong>(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. <strong>Findings:</strong> The results showed that psychological capital elements training<strong> </strong>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. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Considering the study results, psychological capital elements training<strong> </strong>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. <strong>Objective: </strong>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<strong> </strong>on psychological flexibility and psychological distress on the women with breast cancer. <strong>Method:</strong> 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<strong> </strong>(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. <strong>Findings:</strong> The results showed that psychological capital elements training<strong> </strong>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. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Considering the study results, psychological capital elements training<strong> </strong>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. https://hpj.journals.pnu.ac.ir/article_7998_23e59471308df19a77b116d5f1267dbc.pdf