The Effectiveness of A Gratitude-Based Counseling Program In Developing Psychological Well-Being Among Female Students Of King Khalid University In Abha City

Abstract

The current study aimed to design a counseling program based on gratitude for the development of psychological well-being, verify the effectiveness of this program and identify the continuity of its impact through the results of follow-up measurement after a month of its application. An intentional sample of (24) female students from the College of Education at King Khalid University, were randomly divided into two groups, a control, and an experimental group, each group consisted of 12 students, and the research tools used to measure the psychological well-being of university students Prepared by Shend et al. (2013), gratitude scale prepared by Arnout (2019b), and a program based on gratitude consisting of 11 sessions prepared by the researcher. The results found that there were statistically significant differences at the level (0.05) between the means of the control and experimental groups in gratitude and psychological well-being in the post-measurement in favor of the experimental group, and also there were statistically significant differences at the level (0.05) between the means of the experimental group in the pre and post- measurement in gratitude and psychological well-being in favor of the post-measurement, and this indicates the effectiveness of the program. The results also revealed that there were no statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group in the post and follow-up measurements of gratitude and psychological well-being, which indicates the continuity of improvement and the effect of the counseling program based on gratitude for the development of psychological well-being.