Professor, Department of Psychology, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran , h.ahadi78@ut.ac.ir
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Background: Self-efficacy and resilience are among the most important concepts related to psychological capital that consists of various dimensions and considering the multidimensional nature of peace education, examining its impact on increasing self-efficacy and resilience is the main issue of the present study.
Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of peace education on self-efficacy and resilience of junior high school students.
Methods: The present study was conducted as a quasi-experimental method with a pretest-posttest design and considering three experimental and control groups with a two-month follow-up. The statistical population of the study consists of first grade high school students in District 3 of Tehran. 60 samples were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The data collection tool was a psychological capital questionnaire that was used to test the two items of self-efficacy and resilience. After performing the pre-test, the experimental group received peace training in 8 sessions of 120 minutes in 8 consecutive weeks and the control group did not receive any training in this field. At the end of the experimental group, post-test and after two months, follow-up test was performed. Mixed analysis of variance in SPSS-22 software was used to analyze the data.
Results: The results showed that the effect of peace education on the components of self-efficacy and resiliency, is significant at the level of 0.01. Also, peace education compared to the control group has led to an increase in the mean scores of the components of self-efficacy and resiliency in the post-test and follow-up stages.
Conclusion: Due to the significant effect of peace education on students' self-efficacy and resiliency, this method can be used in their academic success.
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Special Received: 2022/01/9 | Accepted: 2022/08/1 | Published: 2022/07/30
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