The effectiveness of resilience training on psychological well-being of female street children with externalizing disorders

The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of resilience training on psychological well-being of street female adolescents with externalizing disorders. In this semi-experimental study, 94 female adolescents aged between 12 and 16 who were the members of the Society for Defending Street and Working Children in Tehran completed the Achenbach Self-Report Scale (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001). Thirty adolescents with 63 and higher scores on the Achenbach Self-Report Scale were selected randomly and assigned into either experimental or control group. The experimental group received 15 weekly sessions of Resilience Training. Both experimental and control groups completed the Ryff’s Psychological Well-Being Questionnaire (RPWB; Ryff & Keyes, 1995) before and after the training sessions. The data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance. The results indicated that experimental group had higher scores in all components of psychological well-being than the control group except for autonomy. The findings suggest that the resilience training program increases the psychological well-being of female street addescents with externalizing disorders.