Positive psychotherapy training on self-acceptance and positive relationships among female students

Bagher Kayedkhordeh,Mansour Abdi,Seyed Saeid Mousavi

doi:10.18844/gjpr.v8i4.3941

Abstract

Positive interventions, which focus on the positive aspects and strengths of people, are relatively new types of interventions in psychology. The purpose of this research is to make a positive impression of psychotherapy on psychological welfare of students of Payame Noor University in Dezful. Therefore, about 28 students were selected and assigned in control and experimental groups by random replacement. Instrument riffs and hypotheses were studied by covariance analysis study extraversion. The research hypothesises have been studied by using covariance analysis. The results showed that positive psychotherapy training on self-acceptance and positive relations with other students is meaningfully effective.  Keywords: Positive psychotherapy, self-acceptance, positive relations

Highlights

Since one of the aims of positive psychology is the enhancement of mental health over mental illness, the question arises as to what is implied by mental health
Applying positive interventions is to improve the quality of life, more pleasure of life, happiness, enjoyment, subjective well-being and, in brief, eudaimonia
It can be said that according to the increase of divorce rate and the problems with which the women heading family with children are faced in the current Iranian society, the present study was carried out to investigate the effectiveness of positive psychology training on the happiness of woman heading family by training positive thinking to take steps to reduce the problems of this group of people (Nakhaei, 2016)

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Since one of the aims of positive psychology is the enhancement of mental health over mental illness, the question arises as to what is implied by mental health. Mental health can be socially constructed and defined by different professions, communities, societies and cultures. Understanding health as the mere absence of disease or illness does not capture the real meaning of well-being (Ickovics & Park, 1998; Ryff & Singer, 1998). Most definitions include aspects of emotional, social and psychological well-being, and portraying mental health as a multidimensional construct (Caplan, Englehardt & McCartney, 1981; Gelso & Fretz, 2001). Health is described as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease (Ryff & Singer, 1998). As a part of the rise of positive psychology, research on well-being and wellness has blossomed in recent decades and, as a result, well-being and wellness paradigms, and models and conceptualisations have been established in various disciplines (Diener et al, 1999; Hefferon & Boniwell, 2011; Kahneman, Diener & Schwarz, 1999)

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