The effect of psychological well-being training on life expectancy, psychological well-being and social anxiety in mothers of students with mentally retarded

The aim of this research was determine the effect of psychological well-being training on life expectancy, psychological well-being and social anxiety. This study was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The research population was mothers of students with mentally retarded in Varamin suburb in academic years of 2019-2020. The research sample was 50 people who were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly replaced in two equal groups. The experimental group received 10 sessions of 90-minutes the psychological well-being training and the control group put on the waiting list for training. The research tools were the questionnaires of life expectancy (Snyder & et al, 1991), psychological well-being (Ryff, 1989) and social anxiety (Connor & et al, 2000) and data were analyzed by the multivariate analysis of covariance method in SPSS-25 software. The findings showed that the experimental and control groups had significant difference in terms of all three variables of life expectancy, psychological well-being and social anxiety (p < 0/001). In the other words, this training method led to increase life expectancy and psychological well-being and decrease social anxiety in mothers of students with mentally retarded. Regarded to results health expert and therapists can use from psychological well-being training to improve health-related traits in mothers of students with mentally retarded.