The Effectiveness of Mind Games in Improving the Psychological Adjustment in Older Men

The present study aimed to examine the effectiveness of mind games in improving psychological adjustment in older men.

The present quasi-experimental study had a pretest-posttest design with the control group. The statistical population consisted of 30 older retired men in District 5 of Tehran in 2019 with lower scores in the Bell Psychological Adjustment Inventory (1961) and they were randomly put into two 15-participant experimental and control groups. The experimental group received an intervention method of the mind games for eight 90-minute sessions and the results were analyzed using the univariate ANCOVA.

The results indicated that mind games improved psychological adjustment (P=0.001, F=34.80) and subscales, namely home adjustment (P=0.001, F=31.61), health adjustment (P=0.001, F=22.95), social adjustment (P=0.003, F=10.64), emotional adjustment (P=0.001, F=13.78), and job adjustment (P=0.005, F=9.47) in the older participants in the control group.

According to the results, it seems that playing mind games improved adjustment in older people; hence, we suggest using this simple, cost-effective, and easy-to-use method.