Effectiveness of the positive psychology-based psychological capital education program on student academic resilience

Background: Psychological capital is one of the new concepts that has been introduced in positive psychology and can play an important role in increasing people's ability in various aspects of life, especially in the field of resilience and various dimensions of resilience.Aims: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a psychological capital training program based on positive psychology on students' academic resilience.Methods: The research method was quasi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test, and 2-month follow-up with a control group.The statistical population of the study consisted of all first and second-grade high school students in Kermanshah in the academic year 2023-2024.The research sample consisted of 26 high school students in Kermanshah who were selected by random sampling method and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (13 people in each group).The students answered the Academic Resilience Questionnaire in three situations: pre-test, post-test, and 2-month intervals (Samuels, 2004).The experimental group received psychological capital training based on the educational model of Luthans and Yousef (2004) in 12 sessions of 90 minutes and the control group did not receive any intervention during the training period.To analyze the data, repeated measure analysis of variance using SPSS software.25. Results:The results of repeated measure analysis of variance showed that there is a difference between the scores of Pre-test and post-test (intervention effect) and pre-test and follow-up (time effect) in the variable of academic resilience and its components (P< 0.05).There is no significant difference between the mean scores of the post-test and follow-up (stability of the intervention) in the variable of academic resilience and its components.In other words, the stability of the intervention has been maintained over time.Conclusion: Based on the findings of the study, it can be concluded that the psychological capital education program based on positive psychology has been effective in increasing academic resilience and this treatment can be used to increase student academic resilience.