The effectiveness of the group intervention with two cognitive-behavioral and logo therapy methods on happiness above Depression of the Girl Students Iranian

This study was done aimed to compare the effectiveness of the group intervention with two cognitive-behavioral methods and logo therapy on happiness of female students of Tarbiat Moallem University (Tehran-Karaj) of Iran in the academic year of (2010-2011) with a quasi-experimental method with control and experimental groups on 30 people of sample groups (each group n = 10) who have been selected by convenient method. Two group methods of 10 sessions of cognitive behavioral and logo therapy were used in this study. To collect data in three time periods (pre-test, post-test and follow-up) the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire was used in both test of experimental and control groups . The results of data analysis by covariance analysis test were significant at 0.01 levels. Accordingly, it was shown that both cognitive behavioral therapeutic approach and logo therapy has been increased the happiness therapeutic in the experimental group and this difference is significant compared to the control group. Also in evaluating effectiveness of the two methods was also observed that logo therapy in the happiness of cognitive-behavioral therapy is more effective .