The Effectiveness of Teaching the Strategy of Religious Coping with Patience in a Group Method on Teachers’ Problem-Solving Skills

The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of teaching the religious concept of patience in a group manner on teacherschr('39') problem-solving skills. The statistical population is all female teachers working in the 18th education district of Tehran. For sampling, first a school was randomly selected as a sample and then 50 teachers were selected as available. The 30 individuals with the lowest scores on the Cassidy and Lang problem-solving scale were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. Patience training as an intervention was performed on the experimental group during 10 sessions. The research method is quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test with a control group. The measurement tool is the scale of Cassidy Wolang problem-solving styles, the reliability of which in the present study was 0.75 for constructive problem-solving styles and 0.79 for non-constructive problem-solving styles. Findings showed that "patience training" in a group method is effective on problem solving skills (constructive and non-constructive) of female teachers. Therefore, "teaching patience" can be used as an intervention to develop teacherschr('39') problem-solving skills.