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Pourmousavi S A, Azargon H, Mansouri A. The Effect of Life Skills Training on the Cognitive Flexibility and Social Well-being of Students Dependence of Cyberspace. RBS 2024; 22 (1) :125-136
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1- Ph.D. Student of Counseling, Department of Counseling, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.
2- Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. ,Azargoon_h@yahoo.com
3- Department of Psychology, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran.
2- Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. ,
3- Department of Psychology, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran.
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Aim and Background: The ever-increasing expansion of cyberspace has affected people's lives. The new generations who were born in this space, day by day, use cyberspace more and have formed a virtual lifestyle, so the purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of life skills training on the cognitive flexibility and social well-being of students’ dependence of cyberspace.
Methods and Materials: The design of this research is a semi-experimental type of pretest, posttest and follow-up with experimental and control groups. The statistical population of this research includes students’ dependence to cyberspace of Neyshabur city in the year 2022-2023. The sample of the research was selected using the convenience sampling method of 30 students’ dependence to cyberspace of Neyshabur city. Research tools included internet addiction questionnaire (Young, 1998), cognitive flexibility scale (Martin and Rubin, 1995), and social well-being questionnaire (Keyes, 1998). The life skills training program was taken from Zare et al. (2019) research, which was implemented in eight ninety-minute-sessions. Repeated measures analysis of variance was used to analyze the data. The data was analyzed using SPSS software
Findings: The results show that the life skills training program has been able to improve cognitive flexibility and social well-being among the students dependence of cyberspace.
Conclusions: Life skills training by improving cognitive, emotional and skill abilities increases the perception of emotions and provide adaptive responses that improve cognitive flexibility and social well-being of students.
Methods and Materials: The design of this research is a semi-experimental type of pretest, posttest and follow-up with experimental and control groups. The statistical population of this research includes students’ dependence to cyberspace of Neyshabur city in the year 2022-2023. The sample of the research was selected using the convenience sampling method of 30 students’ dependence to cyberspace of Neyshabur city. Research tools included internet addiction questionnaire (Young, 1998), cognitive flexibility scale (Martin and Rubin, 1995), and social well-being questionnaire (Keyes, 1998). The life skills training program was taken from Zare et al. (2019) research, which was implemented in eight ninety-minute-sessions. Repeated measures analysis of variance was used to analyze the data. The data was analyzed using SPSS software
Findings: The results show that the life skills training program has been able to improve cognitive flexibility and social well-being among the students dependence of cyberspace.
Conclusions: Life skills training by improving cognitive, emotional and skill abilities increases the perception of emotions and provide adaptive responses that improve cognitive flexibility and social well-being of students.
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Received: 2023/09/2 | Accepted: 2024/06/16 | Published: 2024/07/20
Received: 2023/09/2 | Accepted: 2024/06/16 | Published: 2024/07/20
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