The effectiveness of time perspective treatment in sense of coherence and perceived stress of mothers of children with learning disorders

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the The effectiveness of time perspective treatment in sense of coherence and perceived stress of mothers of Children with learning disorders in Zahedan. The study was a experimental one with a pretest-posttest design including a control group. Using a suitable sampling method, a sample of 30 mothers with children with special learning disorder in the academic year 2017-2018 in Zahedan was selected and were assigned into an experimental and a control groups. Antonovsky (1993) and perceived stress questionnaire (1983) were used in pre-test, post-test and follow-up tests. For therapeutic intervention, the Learning Time Protocol and for analyzing the data, multivariate analysis of covariance analysis were used. The results showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of psychological coherence and perceived stress in the experimental group before and after the intervention (p <0.05), but these changes were not significant in the control group. Therefore, the results showed that time perspective treatment had a significant effect on increasing the mental integrity and reducing the perceived stress of mothers of children with the learning disorder; Therefore, the use of time perspective treatment, as an effective educational intervention, to increase psychological coherence and reduce perceived stress in mothers of children with learning disorder is recommended.