The Effect of Training Time Perspective on Psychological Well-Being of Students

Mohamad Reza Iravani, Ramazan Amiri

Abstract


Psychological well-being contains elements of a positive attitude to himself and his past life, the satisfaction of communicating with others, a sense of autonomy and independence and freedom from the norm, purpose in life and believe the life of every individual is significant, and the ability to manage the environment openness to new experiences with the environment and personal growth. Because of the importance of psychological well-being of the individual and social life of people, especially students in this study the effect of time perspective on the psychological well-being of students examined. The method is quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group and the selection is random. The population consisted of male high school students. Using multi-stage cluster sampling of the applicants 30 people selected randomly and were divided into two groups: experimental and control. The results showed that psychological well-being subscale post-test scores in the experimental and control groups after control pre-test work, the four subscales of self-acceptance (P=0.008  F=36.44), positive relationships with others (P=0.008 F=16.24), mastery of the medium (P=0.008 F=65.23) and the Purpose Driven Life (P=0.008 F=46.9) is significant,  So the hypothesis at P<0.05 confirmed.

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