اثربخشی آموزش مثبت‌نگری اسلامی بر احساس خشم و رضایت از زندگی مادران کودکان با نیازهای ویژه

زمینه و هدف: داشتن فرزند، یکی از نقاط قوت روابط زن و شوهر است. با وجوداین، حضور کودک دچار ناتوانی یا بیمار، برای والدین و به خصوص مادران بسیار تنش زا است. تحقیق حاضر، با هدف بررسی تاثیر آموزش مثبت نگری اسلامی در کاهش احساس خشم و رضایت از زندگی مادران دارای کودکان با نیازهای ویژه انجام گرفت.روش بررسی: این مطالعه از نوع نیمه آزمایشی با گروه ناهمسان و پیش آزمون پس آزمون بود. جامعهٔ مطالعه شده را مادران با کودکان با نیازهای ویژهٔ شهر رودسر تشکیل داد. نمونه گیری به صورت داوطلبانه صورت گرفت، سپس 30 نفر نمونه گیری شده، به تصادف به دو گروه آزمایش و کنترل تقسیم شدند. گروه آزمایش به مدت چندجلسه تحت آموزش مثبت نگری اسلامی قرار گرفتند در حالی که گروه کنترل هیچ آموزشی را دریافت نکرد. ابزار پژوهش، پرسشنامهٔ خشم و رضایت از زندگی بود. داده های حاصل با استفاده از تحلیل کواریانس و نرم افزار آماری spss نسخهٔ 18 تجزیه و تحلیل شد. یافته ها: نتایج پژوهش حاضر نشان داد که میزان احساس خشم و رضایت از زندگی مادران در مرحلهٔ قبل از مداخله و بعد از مداخله اختلاف معناداری دارد (p<0.001). همچنین در متغیرهای احساس خشم و رضایت از زندگی مادران، بین گروه مداخله و گروه کنترل، اختلاف معنادار بود (p<0.001). نتیجه گیری: باتوجه به ثمربخش بودن آموزش مثبت نگری اسلامی بر کاهش احساس خشم و افزایش رضایت از زندگی، آموزش این منابع در راستای مقابله با فشار روانی مادران کودکان با نیازهای ویژه پیشنهاد می گردد.

The effect of the Islamic Positive Thinking Training on Anger Management and Life Satisfaction in Mothers of Exceptional children

AbstractBackground objective: Having children is one of the strengths of couple relationships. Despite this, the presence of a disabled child is very stressful for parents especially mothers, because they experience more stress, guilty feeling, and fatigue. The present study aimed at investigating the effect of Islamic positive thinking on reduced anger and life satisfaction among mothers having disabled children.Methods: This study is a pretestposttest quasiexperimental one. The population consisted of mothers having children with special needs in Roodsar, Iran. A total of 36 participants were recruited through an announcement in exceptional children centers, of whom 6 participants were excluded. The inclusion criteria included having one child with special needs, having at least high school diploma, having no apparent psychological disorders, and getting divorced. The participants were divided into two groups, namely, experimental (N=15) and control (N=15). The research instruments were a demographic information questionnaire (age, gender, marriage status and employment), Novaco Anger Scale (NAS) and Life Satisfaction Scale (LSS). NAS includes 25 questions consisting of five items scored 04. This test was constructed by Novaco (2002) and was standardized. Its reliability and validity were reported as 0.61 (p lt;0.01) and 0.78 (p lt;0.01) in Iran. Life Satisfaction Questionnaire consisted of 5 statements with 7 items scored 17. It has been validated in Iran by using Cronbach rsquo;s alpha test, 0.83, and retesting, 0.61. All people were told that they could leave the experiment when desired. Then positive thinking sessions were covered the following issues: introducing members to one another, description of goals and rules of meetings, describing the hope and the effect of optimism in view of Quran, Training of people to pay attention about selfpositive points considering God rsquo;s emphasis on the humans capability, Expression of individual positive points from a different angle, describing at least 510 positive intellectual memories, listening and pay attention to the positive and spiritual experiences of the members, interaction with others by expressing their positive points, providing a list of positive points covered in the previous sessions, prioritizing positive spiritual experiences, focusing on verses that speak of human ability. Covariance analysis was used to analyze the data.Results: Mean and SD of the age of experimental and control group were 41.6, 7.48 and 39.8, 3.21, respectively, concerning the education, 70% had diploma, 20% associate degree, 10% master degree. These were 73%, 15% and 12% in the control group respectively. Regarding the education, 77% of the experimental and 23% of control groups were housewives. The results revealed significant pretestposttest differences in the control group with respect to anger and life satisfaction (p lt;0.001). Also there was significant difference between the intervention and control group in anger and life satisfaction (p lt;0.001).Conclusion: It could be concluded that Islamic optimism training plan reduced anger feeling and led to an increase in life satisfaction of mothers having children with special needs. So, it is recommended to incorporate the plan in intellectual teachings or designing family training plans.