Effectiveness Mindfulness based cognitive therapy training on mindfulness on job burnout and quality of life of cultural women working in education and training

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Hossein Aflakifard ¹
• Mohammad Ghalehnoei ²

¹ Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University،po Box 889-14665Tehran,Iran. email [e-mail]

² Administrator of the first secondary school, Darudzen, Iran

10.30495/jzvj.2023.31675.3991

Abstract

Introduction:. The aim of the current research is the effect of cognitive therapy training based on mindfulness on job burnout and quality of life of cultural women working in education and training in Marodasht city. Method: The research method was semi-experimental and pre-test-post-test with a control group. The statistical population of this research included cultural women working in education in Maroodasht city in the academic year of 1402-1401. In order to initially sample in a staged cluster from the schools of Marovdasht city, 6 schools were randomly selected and the cultural women working in those schools who volunteered to participate in the research were placed in two experimental (30 people) and control (30 people) groups by random replacement. were given And they were measured through the job burnout questionnaire and the quality of life of the World Health Organization. The collected data were analyzed at two levels (descriptive statistics and inferential statistics). At the level of statistics, mean and standard deviation were used, and at the level of inferential statistics, covariance analysis was used. Findings: Cognitive therapy training based on mindfulness has a positive effect on reducing job burnout and increasing the quality of life of cultural women working in education in Morvdasht city. Discussion: Cognitive therapy training based on mindfulness as a mode of promoting self-awareness thinking, especially among female teachers working in culture, along with other trainings, can have useful results.

Keywords

• Cognitive therapy
• mindfulness
• job burnout
• quality of life

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