Effectiveness of an Islamic Logotherapy Training Package Based on Ayatollah Safaei Haeri’s Approach on Mental Health, Self-Worth, and Moral Development among Female High School Students
Keywords:
Islamic Meaning Therapy, Ayatollah Safaei Haeri, Mental Health, Self-Worth, Moral DevelopmentAbstract
Objective: The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of an Islamic logotherapy training package based on Ayatollah Ali Safaei Haeri’s perspective on mental health, self-worth, and moral development among female secondary school students in Tehran.
Methods and Materials: This study employed a quasi-experimental design with pre-test, post-test, and control group. The statistical population included all female secondary school students in Tehran during the 2025–2026 academic year. Thirty participants were selected through purposive sampling and randomly assigned into experimental and control groups (15 participants in each group). The experimental group received an Islamic logotherapy training program based on Ayatollah Safaei Haeri’s approach in nine 90-minute sessions, while the control group received no intervention. Research instruments included the SF-36 Mental Health Questionnaire, the Self-Worth Questionnaire developed by Doosti and Hosseini-Nia, and Lotfabadi’s Moral Development Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and univariate and multivariate analyses of covariance in SPSS-27.
Findings: The findings of multivariate covariance analysis demonstrated that the Islamic logotherapy intervention had a significant effect on mental health, self-worth, and moral development among students (P<0.05). Post-test mean scores of the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group across all variables. The intervention effect sizes were reported as 31% for self-worth, 18% for moral development, and 15% for mental health. Furthermore, univariate covariance analyses confirmed that the intervention significantly improved moral development, enhanced feelings of self-worth, and promoted mental health in the experimental group compared to the control group.
Conclusion: The results suggest that the Islamic logotherapy training package based on Ayatollah Safaei Haeri’s ideas is an effective culturally grounded intervention for improving adolescents’ mental health, self-worth, and moral development. Integrating this spiritually oriented approach into school counseling and educational programs may serve as a preventive and developmental strategy to strengthen students’ psychological well-being, moral responsibility, and existential meaning.
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