The Effect of Logotherapy Training on Mental Image Of God, Death Anxiety, And Religiousness Among Secondary School Students In Ahvaz City

The objective of this research was to investigate the effect of logotherapy training on the mental image of God, death anxiety, and religiousness, among secondary school students in Ahvaz city during the 2015-16 academic year. The statistical sample included 40 students whom were selected via random sampling procedure from the mentioned population. This research was experiential with a pre-test, post-test, and a control group. The tools used in this research were: the Lawrence God Image Inventory (1991), The Collett- Lester Death Anxiety Scale (1969), And the Arian Religious Views Questionnaire (1998). After random selection of the members of theexperimental and the control groups, a pre-test was performed on the experimental group (20 people), and the control group (20 people). Then the experimental group was subjected to ten 75 minutes sessions of Logotherapy training. Afterward both groups were tested again. Data was analyzed using the Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA). Results showed that Logotherapy training had an effect on the mental image of God, death anxiety, and religiousness, among students. And, this effect was stable after a month.