Effectiveness of Waiting-Oriented Psychological Package Based on Teachings of Mahdavism on Psychological Wellbeing and Psychological Distress on Secondary High School Female Students

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 waiting-oriented psychological package based on teachings of Mahdavism on the psychological wellbeing and psychological distress on secondary high school female students.

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 waiting-oriented psychological package based on teachings of Mahdavism in twelve seventy-five-minute sessions during three months. 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.

The results showed that waiting-oriented psychological package based on teachings of Mahdavism 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.

According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that waiting-oriented psychological package based on teachings of Mahdavism employing cases such as mental techniques, observing self as the background, cognitive defusion techniques, stipulating values and committed action can be used as an efficient method to improve psychological wellbeing and decrease psychological distress in secondary high school female students.