The impact of teaching psychological welfare on marital satisfaction and self-efficacy in nurses • JML Journal of Medicine and Life

2015, Volume 8, Issue Spec Iss 4, pp 307 – 312

The impact of teaching psychological welfare on marital satisfaction and self-efficacy in nurses

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Sabzianpoor B ^*

Ghazanfari Amrai M ^**

Jalali Farahani M ^***

Soheila R ^****

Mahdavi A ^*****

Rahmani S ^******

* *Psychometric Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Iran

** **General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Semnan, Iran

*** ***General Psychology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

**** ****Clinical Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Chaloos Branch, Iran

***** *****Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Payame Noor, Tehran, Iran

****** ******Student Health Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch, Iran

Correspondence to: Mahdavi A, Instructor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Payame Noor, Tehran, Iran, Tehran Province, Tehran, Nakhl St, Iran, Phone: +98 21 2332 0009, E-mail: abed_mahdavi@yahoo.com

Abstract

Objective: Proper psychological interventions for enhancing public health and mental welfare in nurses are of great importance. This study intended to explore the influence of the teaching psychological welfare on marital satisfaction and self-efficacy in nurses of Imam Khomeini hospital.

Methodology: The method of the present study was semi-experimental with a pre-test post-test design and a control group. Hence, 24 nurses were selected from Imam Khomeini hospital, by using convenience sampling, and they were divided into two groups: experiment and monitoring. By using a 47-questions marital satisfaction questionnaire and a 17-questions general self-efficacy questionnaire, both groups were pre-tested. Then the test group, received lessons on psychological welfare within ten sessions, but the control group received no interventions. Afterwards, both groups were post-tested, and the data collected were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics methods through SPSS software.

Findings: Findings showed that teaching psychological welfare significantly increased marital satisfaction and self-efficacy in nurses (p < 0.001).

Conclusion: From this research, it was concluded that teaching psychological welfare is an effective strategy for those with risky jobs like nurses, because it is highly efficient, especially when it is performed in groups, because it is cheap, and because it is acceptable by different working people.

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psychological welfaremarital satisfactionself-efficacynurses

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