Effectiveness of the Online Positive Psychological Intervention on the Development of Mothers' Emotional literacy

Mothers with a high level of emotional literacy have the ability to perceive and transmit emotions more effectively to their children. One of the interventions to improve emotional literacy is positive psychology intervention. The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of online positive psychology intervention on the development of mothers' emotional literacy.

This semi-experimental study with a pre and post-test and a concurrent control group was conducted with the participation of 60 mothers living in Hamedan city in the winter of 2021. The participants were selected by the available sampling method and randomly divided into two equal control and experimental groups. Iranian family psychological functions scale was used to collect data. The experimental group received positive psychology intervention in six sixty-minute sessions. Data were analyzed using t-test and covariance analysis test and SPSS Statistics for Windows, version 22.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, Ill., USA).

The mean (SD) of emotional literacy in the experimental group increased from 47.9 (3.1) before the intervention to 57.3 (3.3) after the intervention (P<0.001) but the changes in the control group were not significant. The results of univariate covariance analysis showed that online positive psychology intervention has an effect of 0.145 on the development of mothers' emotional literacy (P<0.02).

The study showed that positive psychology intervention improves the level of emotional literacy among mothers of study.