Comparison the effectiveness of compassion and acceptance and commitment training (act) on psychological well-bing

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Phd Student of Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran

2 Assistant of Professor, Department of Psychology, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran

Abstract

The aim of the present study is comparison the effectiveness of compassion and acceptance and commitment rtraining (act) on psychological well-bing. This study was experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with control group. Research population consisted of 11th grade students in four districts of Mashhad in 2021-22 academic years. From schools that had at least 4 classrooms of 11th grade, one school were selected by cluster sampling. After visiting that school, three classes were randomly selected and divided lnto three equal groups.the experimental groups recieved 8 sessions of 90 minutes separately, with methods of the compassion and aecep tance and cammi tment - based training (act) and the control group didnot receive training.Research tools was pschological well-Bing scale (Ryff,1989).Data in spss-25 were analyzed with univaiate analysis of variance, with repeated measures and Bonferroni hoc methods. results indicated the effectiveness of both methods, compassion and acceptance and commitment training (act), in increasing psychological well-bing was (P˂0/001). Also was no significant difference between methods in increasing pschological well-Bing (P > 0/05). According to the findings of the present study,to increase pschological well-Bing for students,methods of compassion and acceptance and commitment training can be used.

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