The Effectiveness of Life Skills Training On Clinical Symptoms of Personality of Sexual Abuse Victims

Document Type : پژوهشی

Authors

• Mehri Mirshahi ¹
• Ali Reza Ghaderi ¹
• Majid Moeenizadeh ²

¹ Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

² ferdowsi

10.22067/ijap.v5i2.41069

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of present research was to determine the effectiveness of life skills training on personality clinical symptom of sexual abuse victims
Method: This research is a semi-experimental study which was performed by pre-test, post-test, follow-up design with control group. Participants were selected through the screening method which comprised 30 female clients over 18 years, low education and being held in welfare centers in Mashhad. Participants who got an above average score on questionnaires as follow: Sexual Victimization Questionnaire (SVQ), Life Skills Inventory (LSI), and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, 3th edition (MCMI-III) are eligible to join in groups. Then they were divided into two groups by simple random Sampling: experimental and control groups. The experimental group had been participated in 10 sessions (90 minutes) of life skills training for five weeks, while control group was in waiting list. Data were analyzed by using variance of repeated measures.
Findings: The results of this study revealed that a significant differences of clinical symptom of sexual abuse victims in three stages at (P

Keywords

• Life skills
• Sexual abuse
• Personality

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