the effectiveness of technology-enhanced program of philosophy for children on happiness and rumination thoughts of Orphaned and abused girl children

The current study made an attempt to examine the effectiveness technology-enhanced program of philosophy for children on happiness and rumination thoughts of Orphaned and abused girl children.

The design of this research was a quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test with an experimental and control group. They were selected by available means and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group underwent 8 sessions of philosophy program training for children with enrichment of digital technologies and the control group did not receive this training. To collect and measure the data of this study,was used the rumination questionnaire (Nolen Hooksma and Moro) and the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (Argyle and Lou) were used. To analyze the data, analysis of covariance .

The results showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of rumination and happiness of the two groups in the post-test, assuming that the pre-test variable was included (P <0.001); That is, according to the evaluation of children, the two experimental and control groups were different in the variables of rumination and happiness in the post-test stage.

It can be concluded that the employment of technology-enhanced program of philosophy for children can make a contribution to reducing rumination thoughts and improving happiness of orphaned and abused children.