The effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy for academic buoyancy and psychological capital

This research was conducted with the aim of effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy on psychological capital and academic vitality of male students of Shahid schools in Dezful city. Semi-experimental research method with pre-test - post-test with control group and available sampling method, 30 people were selected and randomly assigned to two groups (15 people control and experiment). The data were collected by the Psychological Capital Questionnaires (Luthans, 2007) and Academic Buoyancy Scales (Hossin Chari & Deghanizadeh, 2011). They were also trained during 8 sessions (90 minutes) once a week for two months, based on the dialectic behavior therapy training protocol of Miller et al. (2007). During the training, the control group did not receive any intervention, and after the training, both groups were given a post-test. In order to analyze the data, multivariate covariance analysis was used. The findings showed that dialectical behavior therapy can significantly improve psychological capital with an effect size of 0.56 and academic vitality with an effect size of 0.47 (p < 0.001). On this basis, based on the results, it can be considered that dialectical behavior therapy can be considered as an effective intervention to improve the psychological capital and academic vitality of students.