Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Azadeh Mohammadi ¹
• Hasan Heidari ²
• Hosein Davoudi ³

¹ Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities, Khomein Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khomein, Iran .

² Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities, Khomein Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khomein, Iran .

³ Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities, Khomein Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khomein, Iran.

Abstract

The aim of this study was to developing and validating flourishing training based on Seligman theory and its effectiveness on self-compassion and psychological well-being of women with addicted spouses. The present research was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, based on Seligman theory, flourishing sessions were developed. Then, 8 psychology experts determined the content validity of the sessions. In the second stage, a semi-experimental design with pre-test, post-testand with a control group and follow-up 2 months was used. The statistical population was women with addicted spouses of Khomein city of year 2021, who were evaluated by two-stage sampling. In the first stage, 36 women screening was done based on subjective sampling and were randomly replaced 18 women in experimental group and 18 women in control group. The flourishing sessions was administered to the experimental group for 10 sessions, and after 2 month, was followed up. Data was collected using self- compassion scale (SCS) and psychological well-being scale (PWBS). Data analysis was performed using SPSS-28 software with analysis of variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni. The results indicated that flourishing sessions has acceptable content validity.

Keywords

• addicted
• content validity
• flourishing
• psychological well-being
• self-compassion