فاعلية برنامج إرشادي عقلاني انفعالي سلوكي في تحسين مشاعر الفقدان و قلق المستقبل لدى عينة من النساء الأرامل

Abstract EN

This study aimed to reveal the effectiveness of rational emotional behavioral counseling program in improving the quality of life, feelings of loss and future anxiety among widowed women.

To achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers used the feelings of loss scale, the scale of future anxiety, and the program according to theory of the rational emotional behavioral therapy.

The study sample consisted of (30) widowed women that were distributed equally in two groups; a control group which did not undergo to a rational emotional behavioral program and an experimental group, which underwent the program.

The results of the study showed that the level of feelings of loss was moderate, and the level of future anxiety was high.

The results also indicated that there were differences in the domains of the feelings of loss scale, and the scale as a whole, and in the domains of the future anxiety scale, and the scale as a whole between the experimental and control groups, in favor of the experimental group.

This indicates that counseling program contributed to reduce the feelings of loss and future anxiety in widowed women.