Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of Psyichology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor, Department of Psysichology, Kharazmi University

3 Associate Professor, Department Psyichology, Tarbiat Modares University

Abstract

The present research was conducted to formulate the effectiveness of the theoretical model of students’ lifestyle wellness in Iranian society. From this point, after analyzing experimental and theoretical backgrounds of the subject, the mixed methods and grounded theory research of Strauss & Corbin and researcher’s own made questionnaire are inductively formed. With regard to the provided strategy in the wellness model of student’s lifestyle namely life skills education, an educational package approach is designed within which the students’ lifestyle wellness could be upgraded in a course of 11 sessions and ultimately to be known as a means for uplifting their lifestyle qualities. For testing the effectiveness of the package, 40 students of Tehran University have been selected and tested through systematic sampling, dividing them into two separated control and experiment groups and then distributed among them a researcher made questionnaire evaluating their lifestyle situation. And then, an 11 life skills education session is executed for the experiment group. For testing the quantitative section of the research, there was an accumulative point to students’ lifestyle wellness and then it has been obvious that through analysis of covariance there is a meaningful difference between control and experiment group. So, provided model have an effective role in Iranian student’s lifestyle wellness.

Keywords

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