The Effect of Teaching Life Skills on Self-Esteem and Psychological Distress of Addicted Women, with an Emphasis on Nahj al-Balagha Concept

The present article aims at examining the effect of teaching life skills on self-esteem and psychological distress of addicted women, with emphasis on Nahj al-Balagha concepts. This research design was of pre-test/post-test type with a control group. The statistical society was composed of all addicted women referring to Addiction Treatment Centers of Rudsar city on 2016. Among them, 24 women who achieved the lowest score in self-esteem and highest score in psychological distress were selected through random selection and assigned into experiment group (12 subjects) and control group (12 subjects). Then, teaching life skills with an emphasis on Nahj al-Balagha concepts were gathered and taught during ten sessions (90 minute each) for the experiment group, whereas the control didn’t receive any teaching. At the end, both groups responded the related questionnaires. The result of covariance analysis showed that there is a meaningful positive relationship between teaching concepts of Nahj al-Balagha and self-esteem (p<0/005), and a meaningful negative relationship between teaching concepts of Nahj al-Balagha and psychological distress (p<0/005). Therefore, teaching life skills with an emphasis on Nahj al-Balagha concepts had a significant role in increasing self-esteem and decreasing psychological distress in addicted women