The effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral education on resilience, self-efficacy and self-esteem of housewives in Karaj

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral education on resilience, self-efficacy and self-esteem of housewives in Karaj.

The present study, including quasi-experimental designs, was a pre-test post-test. The statistical population of the present study was all housewives referring to Razi Psychological Center, whose number was equal to 400 people and the sample size was randomly selected and selected from among them. 30 housewives were selected and divided into both experimental and control groups. Data collection tools in this study were three standard questionnaires of resilience (CD-RISC) (2003), general self-efficacy Scherer et al. (1982), standard questionnaire of dependencies. The value of Cracker et al. 2003 and cognitive-behavioral training were used. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential methods using SPSS21 software. In this study, descriptive statistics were used to calculate the mean and inferential statistics were used to test the hypotheses.

The results indicate the effect of cognitive therapy training on resilience (F = 15.30 and P <0.05) and self-efficacy (F = 21.20 and P <0.05) and self-esteem (F = 12.45 and P <0.05).

The results showed that cognitive-behavioral education is effective on resilience, self-efficacy and self-worth of housewives in Karaj. Due to the severity of the effect, cognitive-behavioral education has a greater impact on the self-efficacy of housewives.