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Randomized Trial Investigating of a Single-Session Character-Strength-Based Cognitive Intervention on Freshman's Adaptability.
- Source :
- Research on Social Work Practice; Jan2019, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p82-92, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Purpose: To investigate the efficiency of a single-session character-strength-based cognitive intervention on enhancing freshmen's adaptability. Method: A randomized trial, pretest, posttest, follow-up intervention was employed using repeated-measures analyses to evaluate the effect. This 90-min intervention contained four activities with 52 undergraduate freshmen (age 17–20) randomly assigned to the intervention and control group, 38 of whom completed all the programs (19 of each group). Results: Compared with the control group, the intervention group showed a remarkable increase in well-being and a significant reduction in depression and anxiety at post and follow-up assessment. The stress level of the intervention group significantly decreased only at the follow-up test. Time effect and the interaction between time and group were significant in anxiety and stress. Conclusions: This intervention can quickly reduce negative affect and elevate well-being for freshmen. It expands the role of social worker in the prevention of mental illness among college population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANXIETY prevention
PREVENTION of mental depression
PREVENTION of psychological stress
ADAPTABILITY (Personality)
ANALYSIS of variance
CHARACTER
COGNITIVE therapy
STATISTICAL correlation
COUNSELING
GOAL (Psychology)
HEALTH promotion
INTELLECT
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
SOCIAL workers
STATISTICS
STUDENT attitudes
T-test (Statistics)
DATA analysis
ACTIVITIES of daily living
OCCUPATIONAL roles
WELL-being
POSITIVE psychology
RANDOMIZED controlled trials
PRE-tests & post-tests
CONTROL groups
REPEATED measures design
PSYCHOLOGY of Undergraduates
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10497315
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Research on Social Work Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 133589878
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731517699525