Efficiency of Quality of Life Enrichment Training on the Self-Worth and Psychological Capitals in the Family-Headed Women

the present study was conducted with the purpose of investigating the effectiveness of quality of life enrichment training on the self-worth and psychological capitals in the family-headed women.

It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, control group and two-month follow-up period design. The statistical population of the present study included all family-headed women (those whose husbands have passed away or those who got divorced) under the protection of Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation in the town of Marvdasht in 2019-20. 30 family-headed women were selected through convenient sampling method and they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 15 women). The experimental group received sixteen ninety-minute intervention sessions of quality of life enrichment training (researcher-made) during two months. The applied questionnaires in this study included self-worth questionnaire (Crocker, Luhtanen, Cooper, Bouvrette, 2003) and psychological capital questionnaire (Luthans, Avolive, 2007). The data from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement ANOVA via SPSS23 statistical software.

The results showed that quality of life enrichment training has significant effect on the self-worth and psychological capitals in the family-headed women (p<0.001) such that this type of training succeeded in the increase of self-worth and the psychological capital in the family-headed women.

According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that quality of life enrichment training can be used as an efficient method to improve self-worth and psychological capitals in the family-headed women through techniques such as accountability, self-awareness skill, patience, acceptance and mindfulness.