The Survey on Effectiveness of Spiritual Happiness Training (Based on Quran) on Psychological Capital & Time Perspective at University Students

With the advent of positive psychology, human capabilities and abilities has been the focus of psychology researchers. This research has been done for evaluation of the effectiveness of spiritual happiness training (based on Quran) on psychological capital & time perspective at Hazrat-e Masoumeh University students in Qom city.

This research was a quasi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the study was all students of Hazrat Masoumeh University in 2019. A total of 30 volunteer students were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (each with 15 members). In the test group, spiritual happiness training (based on the Quran) was performed for eight sessions (90 minutes each session), but the control group did not receive any intervention. In this research, Psychological capital questionnaire (Luthans, 2006) and Time Perspective questionnaire (Zimbardo & Bouyd, 2006) were used for data gathering. Descriptive indicators and analysis of Covariance were used for analyze the data with using SPSS 21 software.

Ethical Considerations: 

The objectives of the study were explained to the participants and their oral verbal satisfaction was obtained.

The results showed that there is a significant difference between the post-test mean of the test and control groups in the variable of psychological capital (123±11/237) and positive past (23/733±6/963), negative past (7/065±18/266), pleasure present (36/533±4/983), fatalistic present (9/80±3/405) & Future (4/66±2/093) (P<0/000).

Spiritual happiness training )based on the Quran( is effective in increasing psychological capital and moderating students' time perspective.