جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « purpose in life » در نشریات گروه « علوم اجتماعی »

The present study aims at investigating the relationship between moral intelligence, purpose in life and spiritual well-being in high school students. This study is in correlational form and the sample group consisted of 250 high school students from Delfan city, selected through multi-stage cluster sampling. The devices used were the questionnaires of spiritual well-being, moral intelligence and purpose in life. The data were analyzed by SPSS 18 software and simultaneously investigated by using Pearson’s correlation test and regression analysis. The results showed that the variables of the study are meaningfully related to one another, and moral intelligence and purpose in life predict some part of the variance of spiritual well-being meaningfully. In sum, we may say that purposefulness in life and acquiring moral intelligence can lead to spiritual well-being.

The aim of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of group logotherapy with Islamic approach on purpose in life among women referring to counseling centers in the city of Isfahan in 2013; thus، 4 counseling centers were selected by convenience sampling. 30 women referring to counseling centers were volunteer to participate in this program. They were randomly placed in two groups of test (15 women) and control (15 women). The test group received 8 sessions of counseling for logotherapy with Islamic approach. The Ryff''s psychological well-being questionnaire as the research tool was completed during pre-test، post-test، and follow-up phases. The results of analysis of variance withrepeated measure showed that the average of scores of purpose in life in test group has meaningfully increased in comparison with control group in post-test and follow-up phases (P<0. 001). The total results showed that group logotherapy with Islamic approach effects on purpose in life. Therefore، educating group logotherapy with Islamic approach as an educational and interventional approach can increase purpose in life.