The effectiveness of positive psychological capital training on health-enhancing lifestyle and rumination in depressed adolescent girls

Background and Aim: The positive approach emphasizes the ability to expand, nurture, flourish, and perfect human beings and become what they can be, and instead of focusing on diseases and disorders, it emphasizes on abilities. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to determine the effect of p...

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Main Authors: Farahnaz Tahvilian, Maryam Mashayekh, Ahmad Borjali, Adis Kraskian
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Language:English
Published: Iran-Mehr: The Institute for Social Study and Research 2023-10-01
Series:مطالعات روانشناختی نوجوان و جوان
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Online Access:http://jayps.iranmehr.ac.ir/article-1-613-en.pdf
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author Farahnaz Tahvilian
Maryam Mashayekh
Ahmad Borjali
Adis Kraskian
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Maryam Mashayekh
Ahmad Borjali
Adis Kraskian
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description Background and Aim: The positive approach emphasizes the ability to expand, nurture, flourish, and perfect human beings and become what they can be, and instead of focusing on diseases and disorders, it emphasizes on abilities. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to determine the effect of positive psychological capital on health-promoting lifestyle and rumination in depressed adolescent girls. Methods: This research is applied in terms of purpose and quasi-experimental in terms of method with a pre-test, post-test design with a control group; The statistical population of this research was the female students of middle school 1 and 2 in Tehran in the academic year 2018-2019. By the available sampling method, using the Health Development Lifestyle Questionnaire (1997) and Nolen Hoeksma's rumination, 30 depressed adolescent girls were selected and randomly placed in two experimental groups (15 girls) and group (15 girls). The experimental group received 8 sessions of 90 minutes as a group intervention based on Luthans and Youssef's (2004) positive psychological capital training. Data were analyzed using multivariate and univariate one-way analysis of covariance.  Results: The results showed that positive psychological capital intervention is effective on healthy lifestyle and rumination. Conclusion: The results of this research showed that the eight sessions of positive psychological capital have been able to significantly improve the health-developing lifestyle of adolescents; Although it was not very effective in the field of rumination. Due to the effectiveness of this treatment method, its widespread use is recommended.
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spelling doaj.art-0e2b056ea35f410fbdb26df5c879f92f2023-11-25T21:57:32ZengIran-Mehr: The Institute for Social Study and Researchمطالعات روانشناختی نوجوان و جوان2821-25252023-10-01487487The effectiveness of positive psychological capital training on health-enhancing lifestyle and rumination in depressed adolescent girlsFarahnaz Tahvilian0Maryam Mashayekh1Ahmad Borjali2Adis Kraskian3 Phd student,Department of psychology,karaj braunch,Islamic Azad University,Karaj,iran Assistant professor, department of health psychology, karaj braunch,Islamic Azad University,Karaj,iran Professor,Department of clinical psychology, allame tabatabaie University, Tehran,iran Assistant professor, department of health psychology, karaj braunch,Islamic Azad University,Karaj,iran Background and Aim: The positive approach emphasizes the ability to expand, nurture, flourish, and perfect human beings and become what they can be, and instead of focusing on diseases and disorders, it emphasizes on abilities. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to determine the effect of positive psychological capital on health-promoting lifestyle and rumination in depressed adolescent girls. Methods: This research is applied in terms of purpose and quasi-experimental in terms of method with a pre-test, post-test design with a control group; The statistical population of this research was the female students of middle school 1 and 2 in Tehran in the academic year 2018-2019. By the available sampling method, using the Health Development Lifestyle Questionnaire (1997) and Nolen Hoeksma's rumination, 30 depressed adolescent girls were selected and randomly placed in two experimental groups (15 girls) and group (15 girls). The experimental group received 8 sessions of 90 minutes as a group intervention based on Luthans and Youssef's (2004) positive psychological capital training. Data were analyzed using multivariate and univariate one-way analysis of covariance.  Results: The results showed that positive psychological capital intervention is effective on healthy lifestyle and rumination. Conclusion: The results of this research showed that the eight sessions of positive psychological capital have been able to significantly improve the health-developing lifestyle of adolescents; Although it was not very effective in the field of rumination. Due to the effectiveness of this treatment method, its widespread use is recommended.http://jayps.iranmehr.ac.ir/article-1-613-en.pdfpsychological capitalpositivisthealth promoting lifestylerumination
spellingShingle Farahnaz Tahvilian
Maryam Mashayekh
Ahmad Borjali
Adis Kraskian
The effectiveness of positive psychological capital training on health-enhancing lifestyle and rumination in depressed adolescent girls
مطالعات روانشناختی نوجوان و جوان
psychological capital
positivist
health promoting lifestyle
rumination
title The effectiveness of positive psychological capital training on health-enhancing lifestyle and rumination in depressed adolescent girls
title_full The effectiveness of positive psychological capital training on health-enhancing lifestyle and rumination in depressed adolescent girls
title_fullStr The effectiveness of positive psychological capital training on health-enhancing lifestyle and rumination in depressed adolescent girls
title_full_unstemmed The effectiveness of positive psychological capital training on health-enhancing lifestyle and rumination in depressed adolescent girls
title_short The effectiveness of positive psychological capital training on health-enhancing lifestyle and rumination in depressed adolescent girls
title_sort effectiveness of positive psychological capital training on health enhancing lifestyle and rumination in depressed adolescent girls
topic psychological capital
positivist
health promoting lifestyle
rumination
url http://jayps.iranmehr.ac.ir/article-1-613-en.pdf
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