Effectiveness of Iranian Islamic Positive Treatment on Psychological Wellbeing and Psychological Distress on Secondary High School Female Students

Introduction Enjoying mental health can improve the students’ educational performance as one of the basic factors in their success. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of Iranian Islamic positive treatment on the psychological wellbeing and psychological distress on secondary high school female students. Method It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, control group and two-month follow-up stage. The statistical population of the present study included secondary high school female students in academic year 2018-19. 30 secondary high school female students were selected through non-random purposive sampling method and replaced into experimental and control groups (15 students in the experimental group and 15 students in the control group). The experimental group received Iranian Islamic positive treatment in eleven seventy-five-minute sessions during three months. However, the control group was waiting to receive the intervention and did not receive this treatment during the research process. The applied questionnaires in this study included the scale of self-examination of practical obligation to Islamic beliefs (Navidi, 1997), psychological wellbeing questionnaire (Ryff, 1989), psychological distress questionnaire (Kesler, 2003). The data from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement ANOVA via SPSS23 software. Result The results showed that Iranian Islamic positive treatment has significantly influenced the psychological wellbeing and psychological distress of secondary high school female students (p < 0.001) in a way that this psychological package was able to lead to the improvement of psychological wellbeing and decrease of psychological distress in secondary high school female students.