The Effect of Positive Thinking Training on Happiness and Irrational Beliefs in Blind Adolescents

This study was conducted for studying effect of positive thinking intervention on happiness and irrational beliefs in blind adolescents. The study population included blind students of Tehran. The study sample consisted of 30 subjects (in experimental group, n=15 and control group, n=15), that were selected using available sampling. All subjects using Oxford Happiness Inventory and Jones Irrational Beliefs test” were assessed and randomly divided to two groups of experimental and control. Eight session of intervention was launched and multivariate analysis of covariance method was used for measuring effectiveness of intervention program on blind students. The results suggested that there is significant effect on intervention group in both subjects of optimism on happiness and irrational beliefs (The necessity of others approval and support, high self-expectations, tend to self-blame, reaction to failure, affective irresponsility, too much concern associated with anxiety, avoidance scale of issues, dependency, frustration toward, perfectionism). As a conclusion the article says that the positive thinking skills training method can be used as an efficient way to increase positive thinking, happiness and decrease irrational beliefs in blind students.