The effect of treatment-based summoning of thoughts and assumptions on Increasing hardiness female students

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of treatment-based summoning of thoughts and assumptions on increasing the psychological hardiness of female students.

The research method is semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with unequal control group, The statistical population of the study included all female students in all levels of Islamic Azad University of Hamedan, who in the academic year 94-93, 1636 people. Non-random sampling method was used for voluntary selection. In this way, among those who duly filled out the questionnaire, The 30 subjects who showed the lowest score in psychological hardiness were selected and then randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. Cognitive therapy based on the call of thoughts and assumptions was grouped in 9 sessions and each session was given for 1 hour and a half for the experimental group and the control group did not receive any treatment. The instrument for measuring data was a psychological hardiness questionnaire (Najjarian, Kiyamarsi and Mehrabizadeh Honarmand, 1377) in Ahwaz. The results of covariance analysis indicated that the intervention was effective and led to improvement in the psychological hardiness of the experimental group (p <0.05).

Considering the effectiveness of cognitive therapy by relying on the call of thoughts and assumptions in increasing the psychological hardiness of female students in the experimental group compared with the control group, the use of this method is recommended for improving psychological hardiness.

The results of this study showed that cognitive therapy is based on the training of inviting thoughts and assumptions with Increasing students psychological hardiness.