Document Type : Research/Original/Regular

Authors

• Arash Ghandehari ¹
• Ilnaz Sajjadian ²
• Ali Mehdad ³

¹ PhD Student, Department of psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch , Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

² Associate professor, Department of clinical psychology, Community Health Research Center, Isfahan(khorasgan)Branch, Islamic Azad university, Isfahan, Iran

³ Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract

The increasing number of female heads of households in Iran and the many harms that are inflicted on them, it is better to raise the mental health of these people among psychologists and specialists. Therefore, the aim of the present study was the effect of logotherapy on the death anxiety, feeling of loneliness, and mental wellbeing of women heads of households. The research method was semi-experimental with pre-test-post-test and follow-up with the control group. The statistical population was all female heads of households referring to the Welfare Department of the city of Isfahan, 30 of whom were selected by purposive sampling and assigned to two experimental and control groups. The experimental group received Frankel's (1986) logotherapy intervention during 10 sessions (90 minutes) and the control group received the intervention. The data in the pre-test-post-test stages and follow-up by Templer's death health questionnaire (1970), Russell et al.'s loneliness (1980) and Keyes and Magyarmo's mental well-being (2003). The result of the analysis of variance with repeated measurement showed that logotherapy had a significant effect on reducing death, loneliness and increasing the mental well-being of female heads of the household and this effect was sustained up to the stage.

Keywords

• Logotherapy
• death anxiety
• Loneliness
• mental well-being

Main Subjects

• Woman and family