The Effectiveness of Psychological Capital Training on Resilience and Distress Tolerance of Grieving Women

Abstract

Introduction and Aim: Grieving women have many problems and challenges, including in the areas of resilience and distress tolerance. Therefore, the present research aimed to determine the effectiveness of psychological capital training on the resilience and distress tolerance of grieving women.

Methodology: This research was a quasi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The research population was all grieving women referring to the Nikokari Foundation Center (Specialized Center of Grief) of Tehran city in 2025 year, which from them 30 people were selected by voluntary sampling method and randomly assigned into two equal groups. The experimental group underwent 10 sessions of 70 minute by psychological capital training, and during this period the control group did not receive any intervention. The research instruments included the Resilience Scale (Connor & Davidson, 2003) and Distress Tolerance Scale (Simmons and Gaher, 2005). The data of this study were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance method in SPSS-24 software at a significant level of 0.05.

Findings: The results of the present study showed that there was a significant difference between the grieving women in the experimental and control groups in terms of at least one of the variables of resilience and distress tolerance. In the other words, psychological capital training significantly increased the resilience and distress tolerance of the grieving women of the experimental group in compared to the control group (P<0.001).

Conclusion: According to the results of this study, specialists and therapists can use the psychological capital training method along with other training methods to improve the characteristics of vulnerable groups, including grieving women in order to increase resilience and distress tolerance.