The Effectiveness of Flourishing Education on Depression, Anxiety, and Resilience of Gifted School Students

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Fatemeh Abbasian ¹
• Majid Pakdaman ²
• Hosein Kareshki ³

¹ PhD Student, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University of Ghaenat, Iran

² Assistant Professor of Department of Psychology, Qaenat Branch, Islamic AzadUniversity, Qaenat, Iran.

³ Associate Professor, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

10.22067/tpccp.2022.69515.1076

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of positive psychology in general, and the flourishing education on anxiety, depression, and resilience of gifted school students in particular.
Method: In order to achieve the research purpose and to determine the effectiveness, a pre-test-post-test design was used with the control group. The statistical sample of this study included 50 female students of Farzanegan High School in Torbat Heydariyeh. The Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale were first administered to the statistical population, which included all high school students. The 50 students with the highest score on DASS and the lowest score on the resilience scale were selected as the participants of the study and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. For the experimental group, flourishing education was performed in 14 sessions of 60 minutes (two sessions per week). But the control group did not receive any treatment at first and at the end of the research, treatment was conducted for the control group. Data were analyzed using SPSS-26 through covariance analysis.
Findings: The results of the covariance analysis showed that due to the significant F value, the research hypothesis was confirmed at the confidence level of 99% based on the efficacy of flourishing education protocol on anxiety, depression, and resilience variables. Flourishing education reduces anxiety and depression and increases the resilience of students in the experimental group, compared to the control group.

Keywords

• Positive Psychology
• Flourishing Education
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Resilience

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