A Study of Effectiveness of Self Efficacy Training in Improving the Adjustment of Married Women

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1 MA in Counseling

2 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

3 Assistant Professor ofthe Organization for Researching and Composing University Textbooks in the Humanities

Abstract

Purpose:The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of training of self-efficacy in improvement of married women adjustment. In this study, the population of married women participating in training sessions was from the health house of district 6 in 1391. Methods: The sample size was 30 people which were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. Both groups were subjected to pre-test and self-efficacy training was conducted to test group. After training, both experimental and control groups were tested. The data collection tool in this study was Bell adjustment questionnaire. In this study, five hypotheses, the effectiveness of self-training method to improve adjustment (family, health, emotional, social, and general), of married women were studied. Analysis of covariance was used to analyze the data. Findings: The results show there is a significant difference between the performance of the experimental and control groups after the training. Conclusion: The results show that training of self-efficacy can improve the adjustment of family, health, emotional, social, and general issues of married women.

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  • Receive Date: 09 June 2014
  • Accept Date: 26 October 2014

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