THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GROUP THERAPY ON PROMOTING HOPE AND SELF EFFICACY IN SUBSTANCE ABUSERS IN SHIRAZ

Background and Aim : addiction is considered among the great human problems in addition to malnutrition and environmental pollutions which has involved all industrial and non-industrial societies and our society is facing it heavily too. So the present research was performed with the aim of studying the group logotherapy effectiveness on hope (expectancy) increase and self-efficacy on the people addicted on drug in Shiraz city. Methods : this research plan is a pre-test-after-test one with control group and random sampling. In this research, 30 persons of the clients to the Residential Center For Addiction Give-Up of Shiraz city on 2016 were replaced randomly in two test (15 people) and control (15 people) groups. Group logotherapy was the independent variable and the test group received it in 10 sessions and the control group didn’t receive any interventions. The research tool for the hope (expectancy) scale in the adult special arenas and self-efficacy was Sherer. Covariance analysis was used to analyze the data. Results : covariance analysis test results showed that group logotherapy is effective on the increase in the total score for the life expectancy of the people addicted to the drugs and its arenas and self-efficacy scale. According to the follow-up results after one month, there was a significant difference between the test and control group in the hope (expectancy) amount and self-efficacy and its arenas and group logotherapy effect had remained after one month. Conclusion : with regard to the research performed, it could be concluded that group logotherapy increases life expectancy and self-efficacy in the people addicted to the drug.

Keywords:

group logotherapy , expectancy , self-efficacy , the people addicted to the drug