The Effectiveness of Resilience Training on Anxiety and Psychological Well-Being of Athlete Students
Keywords:
Resilience Training, Anxiety, Psychological Well-Being, Athlete StudentsAbstract
Background and Objective: Resilience through successful adaptation to challenging situations can improve psychological characteristics. As a result, the aim of this research was determine the effectiveness of resilience training on anxiety and psychological well-being of athlete students.
Methods and Materials: The present study was semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with two experimental and control groups. The population of this research was all athlete students of public universities of Tehran city in the 2020-21 academic years. The sample of this research was 30 student athletes who were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups (each group 15 people). The experimental group underwent 10 sessions of 90 minute by resilience training and the control group remained on the waiting list for training. The research instruments were included the anxiety inventory (Beck et al., 1988) and psychological well-being revisited questionnaire (Riff and Keyes, 1995). The data of the present study were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance method in SPSS-20 software.
Findings: The results of the present study indicated that there was a significant difference between the athlete students of the experimental and control groups in terms of both anxiety and psychological well-being variables. In the other words, resilience training reduced anxiety (F=13.06, P=0.001) and increased psychological well-being (F=9.96, P=0.004) of athlete students.
Conclusion: The results of this study indicated the effectiveness of resilience training in reducing anxiety and increasing psychological well-being. Therefore, counselors and therapists can use resilience training along with other training methods to improve the psychological characteristics.
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