The Efficacy of forgiveness therapy in the happiness and quality of educational life

Abstract

This research aims to determine the effect of forgiveness therapy on students happiness and the quality of their academic life . research method is semi-experimental regarding academic. statistical population of the research consisted of all male students in first good of high school in zahak city in academic year 2018-2019 . Finally , sample size of 30 people was selected using multi-stage cluster sampling . to measure research variables , tow oxford happiness questionnaires (OHI) and the quality of life at school questionnaire (QOSL) were used which reviewed by Anderson and brou (2000) and forgireness therapy training was held for tweleve 60 minutes sessions (fire weeks and tow sessions each week) for test group based on main therapy pattern . in this research , descriptive (frequency distribution , calculation of central indices) and inferential statistics ( Kolmogorov – smirnor test , levene test , single variable covariance analysis and multi – variable covariance analysis ) were used to data analysis . the results showed that forgiveness therapy training has effect on students happiness and the Quality of their academic life . ie . forgiveness therapy training causes increase in happiness and improve students .quality of academic life

Keywords

• forgiveness therapy . happiness
• the quality of academic life
• students