The Effectiveness of Resilience Training in Psychological Cohesion and Flourishing on Elementary Students

The present study aimed to examine the effectiveness of resilience training on psychological cohesion and flourishing the elementary students. The current research was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with a control group design. The study’s statistical population consisted of all sixth-grade elementary school girls in Islamshahr (Iran) in 2020. The sample consisted of 30 sixth-grade female students selected by the accessible sampling method and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (15 students in each group). The needed data were collected using the short form of the Sense of Cohesion Scale by Antonovsky (1993) and the Flourishing Scale by Diner et al. (2010). The experimental group underwent resilience training intervention of Hossein Sabet (2012) for 8 one-hour sessions. The control group did not receive any training during this period. The research hypotheses were analyzed by multivariate and univariate analysis of covariance. Results indicated that resilience training has significantly increased psychological cohesion and flourishing in students (p < 0.001). In general, the findings support the effectiveness of resilience-based interventions on primary students’ motivational outputs.