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consulting Department, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran , farzanehsadatrazavi@gmail.com
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Background & Aim: Adolescence is the period of formation of personality structure and all the main characteristics of personality, career tendencies and work values are formed in this period. Therefore, this research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of reality therapy on aggression, psychological flexibility and self-efficacy of career decision-making in adolescent girls.
Materials & methods: The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The research population included all adolescent girls in Yazd city who were studying in the second secondary level in the academic year of 1401-1402, and from these, 2 groups of 16 people were selected by cluster sampling and randomly divided into two intervention groups and a control group. and responded to Bass and Perry aggression questionnaire (1978), psychological flexibility questionnaire by Hayes (2000) and Betz and Taylor self-efficacy questionnaire (1983) in two stages of pre-test and post-test. The subjects of the experimental group underwent group face reality therapy for 1 session of 60 minutes per week for 2 months, but no training was given to the control group during this period. The data were statistically analyzed using multivariate and univariate analysis of covariance with a significance level of p<0.05 and using SPSS version 23 software.
Results: The survey results showed; In the variable of aggression, there is a significant difference between the significance of the reality therapy approach and the control group (p < 0.003), but in the variable of psychological flexibility, no significant difference was seen between the mean of the control group and reality therapy intervention, and between the reality therapy approach and the control group in the variable of job self-efficacy. There was a significant difference (p < 0.01).
Conclusion: Therefore, according to the nature of skills training, reality therapy has been effective on aggression and career decision-making self-efficacy of adolescent girls, and the results of this research can be used to improve aggression in adolescents with identity crisis.
Materials & methods: The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The research population included all adolescent girls in Yazd city who were studying in the second secondary level in the academic year of 1401-1402, and from these, 2 groups of 16 people were selected by cluster sampling and randomly divided into two intervention groups and a control group. and responded to Bass and Perry aggression questionnaire (1978), psychological flexibility questionnaire by Hayes (2000) and Betz and Taylor self-efficacy questionnaire (1983) in two stages of pre-test and post-test. The subjects of the experimental group underwent group face reality therapy for 1 session of 60 minutes per week for 2 months, but no training was given to the control group during this period. The data were statistically analyzed using multivariate and univariate analysis of covariance with a significance level of p<0.05 and using SPSS version 23 software.
Results: The survey results showed; In the variable of aggression, there is a significant difference between the significance of the reality therapy approach and the control group (p < 0.003), but in the variable of psychological flexibility, no significant difference was seen between the mean of the control group and reality therapy intervention, and between the reality therapy approach and the control group in the variable of job self-efficacy. There was a significant difference (p < 0.01).
Conclusion: Therefore, according to the nature of skills training, reality therapy has been effective on aggression and career decision-making self-efficacy of adolescent girls, and the results of this research can be used to improve aggression in adolescents with identity crisis.
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Received: 2024/01/10 | Revised: 2024/03/17 | Accepted: 2024/02/29 | Published: 2024/02/29 | ePublished: 2024/02/29
Received: 2024/01/10 | Revised: 2024/03/17 | Accepted: 2024/02/29 | Published: 2024/02/29 | ePublished: 2024/02/29
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