on happiness, pleasure and psychological health in university students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of psychodrama with spiritual content on happiness, pleasure and psychological health in students. In an experimental study with design of pre-test and post-test with control group, from among all of undergraduate studetnst of Universtiy of Isfahan (N=9620), 44 students were selected by random cluster sampling and assigned to one experimental and one control group (n=22 each group). Both of two groups were respond on Oxford happiness questionnaire (Argyle and Hills, 2002), Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale (1993) and General Health Questionnaire, GHQ-28 (Goldberg, 1972) in pretest, post-test and one month follow up. Ten weekly sessions of 1.5 hour duration of psychodrama with spiritual content was administrated to the experimental group, twice a week, but control group did not receive any intervention. Data was analyzed through analysis of variance and Mann-Witney U. Results showed all dependent variables in the experimental group significantly enhanced compared with control group. These results were confirmed after a one month follow up. Psychodrama with spiritual content can use as an efficient intervention to improve happiness, pleasure and psychological health in student population.