Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of quality of life therapy on the quality of parent-adolescent interaction and adolescent adjustment. A quasi-experimental design comprising a pretest, posttest, control group, and a two-month follow-up period was utilized for the study. The statistical population of the survey comprised second-year high school female adolescents residing in Isfahan during the 2020-2021 academic year. By means of purposive sampling, 35 adolescents were chosen at random and divided into experimental and control groups,with 18 adolescents assigned to the experimental group and 17 to the control group. Over the course of two months, mothers of adolescents in the experimental group participated in eighty-five-minute quality of life therapy sessions. A pre-test was administered prior to the intervention, and a post-test was conducted subsequent to the intervention. Following a gap of two months, the follow-up phase was conducted. Parent-Child Relationship Questionnaire (PCRQ) and California Individual-Social Adjustment Questionnaire (CISAQ) were utilized in this research. The data obtained from the research were analyzed through mixed ANOVA via SPSS-23 software. The results showed that quality of life therapy significantly influences the character of parent-adolescent interaction and adolescent adjustment (p
Machine summary:
Based on the findings of the research, it can be concluded that quality of life therapy, by teaching adolescents to communicate with family members, support and acceptance of members, and teaching the replacement of irrational thoughts with rational thoughts, can be used as an effective treatment to improve the quality of parent-adolescent interaction and adolescent adjustment.
(2019) showed the effect of group counseling based on quality of life therapy on the psychological reactions of family caregivers of addicts, Najarzadegan and Farahadi (2018) showed the effectiveness of quality of life therapy on communication skills and emotional self-regulation of couples, Rezaei and Farahadi (2017) showed the effectiveness of quality of life therapy on feelings of loneliness and self-esteem of female students in the second grade of high school addicted to the Internet, Yousefvand, Ghadampour, Rajabi et al.
It should be noted that the pre-test scores of the experimental and control groups were compared in the variables of parent-adolescent interaction and individual and social adaptation, and the results showed no significant difference in the scores.
Other results of this table showed that there was no significant difference between the mean scores of post-test and follow-up of these variables, and in summary, it can be said that quality of life therapy significantly increased the average scores of the variables of parent-adolescent interaction and individual and social adaptation of adolescents in the post-test stage, and this effect remained stable in the follow-up stage.
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