The Effectiveness of Implementing the Project of Hope on Increasing Prisoner's Subjective Well-being

The present paper seeks to investigate the effectiveness of teaching the project of hope on the promotion of subjective well-being of prisoners in need of help and correction. To this end, 32 prisoners were selected from prisoners in Qom central prison and were randomly divided into experiment group (16 prisoners) and control group (16 prisoners). They completed the scales of life satisfaction and subjective happiness. The criteria of input and output of this research include: 1- subjects being young; 2- having least literacy; 3-granted forgiveness or vacation at the end of prison; 4- not participating in the project of hope in prisons of the country. The hope project was implemented for experiment group. The covariance analysis of the data shows that teaching the project of hope is influential in increasing the constructs of subjective well-being such as life satisfaction and subjective happiness of prisoners, such that having moderated the scores of pretest between two groups after intervention, there was a significant difference in the factors of life satisfaction and subjective happiness (p=0/000). Furthermore, the project of hope increases life satisfaction and subjective happiness %60 and %48, respectively.