The Effect of Group Logotherapy on Self- Esteem and Psychological Well-Being of Female Students with Love Trauma Syndrome

The purpose of this research was to investigate the efficacy of group logotherapy on self- esteem and psychological well-being of female students with love trauma syndrome. The semi-experimental design: pre-post test and follow-up with control group was used in this study. Populations were all female students of Kurdestan Univesity in 2017 and were selected through purposive sampling method. Sample numbers were 24 students that gained high scores on Love Trauma Inventory and randomly assigned to control and experiment groups (each group included 12 students).Also the Rosenberg self-esteem scale and Ryff's Scales of Psychological Well-being was completed by both groups.The experiment group exposed to 10 instruction sessions of group logotherapy and the control group received no intervention.By ending the therapeutic period, both groups were examined by mentioned inventory in post-test stage and follow-up was performed after 1 month. Finally, the results were analyzed with using multivariate analysis of covariance. The results showed that there is significant difference between posttest scores of self- esteem and psychological well-being at experimental and control groups and the logotherapy had positive effect on experimental group.These results were also preserved in the follow-up stage. The overall results indicate that group logotherapy can be used as an effective treatment on the increases of self- esteem and psychological well-being.