Developing and Validating the Educational Package of Wisdom and Its Effectiveness on Self-compassion and Psychological Well-being of Students

Mirdavood, Seyedeh Melika; Dortaj, Fariborz; Sheivandi Chelicheh, Kamran; Lotfi Azimi, Afsaneh

doi:10.22034/iepa.2024.428677.1460

Developing and Validating the Educational Package of Wisdom and Its Effectiveness on Self-compassion and Psychological Well-being of Students

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Seyedeh Melika Mirdavood ¹

Fariborz Dortaj ²

Kamran Sheivandi chelicheh ³

Afsaneh Lotfi Azimi ³

¹ Ph.D. student, Department of Educational Psychology Faculty of Psychology, Rude hen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

² Professor of Allameh Tabataba&#039;i University

³ Department of Educational Psychology Faculty of Psychology, Rude hen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22034/iepa.2024.428677.1460

Abstract

Wisdom can be understandd as a psychological competence in facing difficult and ambiguous or unsolvable problems of life and helps people endure or cope with complex and uncertain life conditions in the future. Also, wisdom is based on experience. Experience in itself is not necessarily effective, but lessons learned from successes and failures that people gain are helpful. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of the educational package of wisdom and self-compassion and psychological well-being in students. Also, this research is semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The statistical population was all undergraduate students of psychology at Azad University, Rodehen branch, in the academic year of 2021-2022 Among them, 45 students have been randomly replaced in control and experimental groups. The research tool included Nef self-compassion questionnaire and Rif psychological well-being. For this purpose, the educational package of wisdom was first designed and compiled based on the theoretical foundations and also the existing packages according to the target group and was approved by the experts. Then, from both control and experimental groups, in a pre-test session, including the implementation of research tools, the students of the experimental group were taught wisdom training package during 8 90-minute sessions, 2 sessions per week And finally, after the completion of the training sessions, a post-test was taken from both groups. The data were analyzed using analysis of covariance test in SPSS26 software.

Keywords

Educational Package of Wisdom

Self-compassion

Psychological Well-being

Subjects

Intelligence and Memory

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