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The Effectiveness of Psycho-social Empowerment on Enhancement of Student’s Psychological Well-Being and Resilience

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The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of psycho-social empowerment on enhancement of well-being and resilience in the junior high school students. The type of research is Quasi-experimental pretest-posttest study with control group. There were selected30 junior high school students for statistical samples and were placed in two control (n=15) and test (n=15) groups randomly. Both groups responded the questionnaires firstly the resilience questionnaire [1] (CD-RISC) and the psychological well-being questionnaire [2]. The test group received psycho-social empowerment training program and the control group did not receive any intervention. After, the members of both groups answered the psychological well-being questionnaires. The results showed psycho-social empowerment training program was significantly increased the psychological well-being and resilience.

Published in Advances in Social Psychology (Volume 2, Issue 1)
DOI 10.11648/j.asp.20170201.12
Page(s) 6-13
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Keywords

Psycho-social Empowerment Program, Psychological Well-Being, Resilience

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