The effectiveness of resilience training in reducing addiction tendencies in male adolescents in Iranshahr prison

Shahram Rastegar¹ Dr. Ali Arab²

1) Master of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran
2) Assistant Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran

IOI Code : AABF-ABZGGK
Publication : 3rd International Conference on Applied Researches in Humanities, Economics, Management & Accounting(icrhema.com/3rd)
Abstract :
    The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of resilience training in reducing the tendency to addiction in male adolescents in Iranshahr prison. The present study design was quasi-experimental. In this study, pre-test-post-test was used with a control group. The statistical population was all male adolescents in Iranshahr prison who were placed in the control and experimental groups. The DOS questionnaire and the Addiction Tendency Questionnaire (Widowboucher, 1992) were used to collect data. Accordingly, in this study, resilience training was presented in the form of five hypotheses to the experimental group tests, and the results of data analysis showed that resilience training was effective in reducing the tendency to addiction and, accordingly, it can be considered as an effective intervention for this group of people, and the resilience training program was implemented on the sample during eight sessions.

Keywords : resilience adolescent addiction tendency