The Effectiveness of Spiritual Intervention on Personal and Social Resiliency of Women Victims of Domestic Violence

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1 uma

2 kazeroon

Abstract

Introduction: Past research have been shown strong relationship for the resiliency and extent of the violency in individual. The aim of this study then was to examine the effectiveness of a Spiritual Intervention on the personal and social resiliency of women victims of domestic violence.
Method: This is a semi-experimental study with pretest and post-test design that was conducted with the participation of 60 women under the coverage of a charity centre (Komite-Emdad Emam) in the Shiraz city during 2017 year. The sample of study included 40 female victims of violence who were selected using an available sampling method and assigned randomly in the experimental and control group (n= 20). To collect data, demographic questionnaire and Friborg’s Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) were used. The Spiritual Intervention was held in 8 sessions of 90 minutes with group discussion and distribution of educational pamphlets. 15 day after the intervention, the post-test was performed and data were analyzed using a Multivariate Analysis of Covariance )MANCOVA(.
Results: Results showed significant increased resiliency mean scores  of the women in experimental group compared to the control groupafter the Intervention.  Mean components of Personal and Social Resiliency also increased significantly.
Conclusion: Training religious beliefs by spiritual intervention could increase the individual and social resiliency of women victims of domestic violencePersonal and Social Resiliencyand is recommended for them.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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  • Receive Date: 28 November 2017
  • Accept Date: 19 October 2018

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