| Abstrakt: |
The Porpouse of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of kindness training on academic resilience and interpersonal forgiveness. A quasi-experimental design was employed with pretest, posttest and control group. The population of this study included all 2614 female students of the third grade of high school in Zahedan city in the academic year 2022-2023. The sample size in the experimental and control groups is at least 15 people in each group based on the Quinn and Keough formula, which was followed in this study as well. After randomly selecting one of the girls' schools of the second year of high school, the third grade students who were willing to participate in this course answered the questions of interpersonal forgiveness and academic resilience questionnaires. 30 students who had obtained lower grades in this test were selected as samples and were randomly placed in two groups of 15 people, test and control. The data collection instrument was questionnaires on academic resilience (Samuels, 2004) and interpersonal forgiveness (Ehteshamzade et al., 2010) that all participants completed as the pre-test. Then, the kindness training (Rezaei Oshyani et al., 2018) was conducted in the experimental group for eight sessions. Finally, the same questionnaire was completed by both experimental and control groups. Then, the data was analyzed using covariance analysis. The first finding showed that the average academic resilience in the post-test of the experimental group (3.24) is significantly higher than the control group (2.26). Therefore, the teaching of kindness has a positive and significant effect on academic resilience, and the amount of this effect is 0.780 (p<0.01). The second finding showed that the average interpersonal forgiveness in the post-test of the experimental group (3.03) is significantly higher than the control group (2.04). Based on this, kindness training has a positive and significant effect on interpersonal forgiveness, and the amount of this effect is 0.549 (p<0.01). According to the results, it is suggested to design the program of kindness training in schools in order to increase resilience and interpersonal forgiveness of students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
