Document Type : Research Paper
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PhD student in General Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of General Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.
10.22034/jmpr.2023.58320.5795
Abstract
The present study was conducted to developing a comprehensive package of educational-psychological empowerment based on the lived experience of adolescent girls in divorced families and investigating its effectiveness on their subjective well-being and emotional regulation. The research method was qualitative, phenomenological-descriptive, and the research method in the quantitative part was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a two-month follow-up period. The The statistical population consisted of adolescent divorced girls in the first year of high school in Rasht city in the academic year of 2022-2023. In the qualitative part, the sample consisted of 20 adolescent divorced girls were purposefully selected and subjected to semi-structured interview. In the quantitative part, in this research 27 adolescent were selected through purposive sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (14 adolescent in the experimental and 13 adolescent in the control group). The adolescents in the experimental group received the package of educational-psychological empowerment during 10 weeks in 10 90-minute sessions. Pre-test was performed before the intervention and post-test was performed after the intervention. Two months later, the follow-up phase was carried out. The applied questionnaire in this study included Subjective Well-Being Scale (Butler, Kern, 2016) and emotional regulation Questionnaire (Gross and John, 2003). The data from the study were analyzed through mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 software. The results showed that the comprehensive package of educational-psychological empowerment has sufficient content validity according to experts. Also, this training package had an impact on the subjective well-being (P<0001) and emotional regulation (P<0001) of adolescent divorced girls. Based on the findings of the research, it can be concluded that the comprehensive educational-psychological empowerment package focusing on self-awareness, self-efficacy, how to manage anger, taking advantage of spirituality and creating motivation can be an efficient method to improve the subjective well-being and emotional regulation of adolescent divorced girls should be used.
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