The Effectiveness of Group Training of Psychological Capitals on Social Competence and Academic Resilience of Students Suffering from Learned Helplessness in the Second Year of High School

Zangeneh, Mahbobeh; Ahmadi, Reza; Sharifi, Tayyebeh

doi:10.22059/japr.2025.367583.644769

The Effectiveness of Group Training of Psychological Capitals on Social Competence and Academic Resilience of Students Suffering from Learned Helplessness in the Second Year of High School

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Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

mahbobeh zangeneh ¹

reza ahmadi ²

tayyebeh sharifi ³

¹ PhD student in Educational Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran

³ Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran.

10.22059/japr.2025.367583.644769

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of group training of psychological capitals on social competence and academic resilience of students suffering from learned helplessness in the second year of high school. The current study was a semi-experimental application with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a two-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the research included male and female students with l learned helplessness who were studying in the second period of secondary school in the academic year of 1401-1402 in Firozabad city of Fars.. 35 student suffering from learned helplessness were selected through purposive sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental (18 people) and control groups (17 people). The students in the experimental group received psychological capital training in ten weeks in ten 90-minute sessions. The applied questionnaires included social competence Questionnaire (SCQ), academic resilience Questionnaire (ARQ) and learned helplessness Questionnaire (LHQ). The data from the study were analyzed through Analysis of variance with repeated measures via SPSS23 software. The results showed that group training of psychological capitals has significant effect on the social competence (F=42.52; Eta=0.56; P<0001) and academic resilience (F=50.76; Eta=0.60; P<0001) of students suffering from learned helplessness.

Keywords

Group Training of Psychological Capitals

Social Competence

Academic Resilience

Learned Helplessness