Positive Thinking Training
Volume 2, Issue 3 , December 2025
Positive Thinking Training
Marzieh derakhshan
Volume 2, Issue 1 , June 2025, , Pages 41-51
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of kindness behavior training on reducing depression and improving communication skills of depressed addicts. The research method was semi-experimental and pre-test-posttest design with control group. The statistical population included depressed ...
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of kindness behavior training on reducing depression and improving communication skills of depressed addicts. The research method was semi-experimental and pre-test-posttest design with control group. The statistical population included depressed substance abusers in Sepehr institute in Isfahan in the summer of 1397. The research sample consisted of 26 people who had low scores in communication skills, who were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. The kindness Behavior Training Program was conducted for 8 sessions for the experimental group and the control group did not receive any intervention. The instruments used included Beck Depression Scale (1996), Matson Communication Skills Scale (1983). They were pre-test and post-test. Analysis of variance and covariance were used to analyze the data. The results showed that there is a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in the post-test regarding the scores of depression, communication skills. The mean of experimental group in each of these variables was significantly less than control group (p <0.001). The kindness Behavior Training program can be used as an addiction prevention and supplementary treatment program along with other training programs.
Positive Thinking Training
Azra Momeni; Ali Zeinali
Volume 1, Issue 2 , January 2025, , Pages 65-75
Abstract
The corona epidemic and the subsequent provision of virtual teaching created many problems in the field of motivation and self-efficacy of students، especially for entrance exam students. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of positive thinking training on ...
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The corona epidemic and the subsequent provision of virtual teaching created many problems in the field of motivation and self-efficacy of students، especially for entrance exam students. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of positive thinking training on the academic motivation and academic self-efficacy of 12th-grade high school students during the outbreak of Covid-19. The present research was a quasi-experiment of the pretest-posttest and follow-up with a control group. The statistical population of this research was all 12th-grade students of Khoy city (including 846 students) in the 2021-2022 academic year. The sample size was 80 people، so 40 people were selected for each group by available sampling method. Academic Motivation Scale (AMQ, Harter, 1980) and Academic Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (ASEQ, Jinks and Morgan, 1999) questionnaires were used to collect data. Positive thinking training was implemented in a group in 8 sessions only for the experimental group. Data analysis was done by MANCOVA with repeated measures، using. The results showed that positive thinking training had a significant effect on the academic motivation and academic self-efficacy of twelfth-grade students (P<0.05). Therefore, positive thinking training can be used to improve students' academic motivation and self-efficacy.
