Hajipour M, Kiani A, Akhavi Samarin Z.
(2025). The effectiveness of Solution Focused Brief Therapy on mobile phone addiction and improving sleep quality and mental health of students. Rooyesh. 14(9), 41-50.
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1- Master's degree in School counseling, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.
2- Associate Professor, Department Of Counseling, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University Of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran. , A_kianichelmardi@sbu.ac.ir
3- Associate Professor, Department Of Counseling, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University Of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.
Abstract: (16 Views)
The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy on mobile phone addiction and improving the sleep quality and mental health of students. The present study was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design and a control group. The statistical population included all sixth-grade elementary students of Khomam city during the 2022 academic year. 24 sixth-grade elementary students were selected by an available sampling method and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (12 students in each group). Mobile phone addiction questionnaires (MPAQ; Savari 2012), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI; Buysse et al, 1989), and Anxiety, Depression and Stress Scale–21 (DASS-2; Lovibond and Lovibond, 1995) were used to collect data. After administering a pre-test to both groups, 8 weekly 90-minute sessions of solution-focused brief group therapy were provided to students in the experimental group, but the control group did not receive any training. The data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance. The results showed that, by controlling for the pre-test effect, there was a significant difference between the post-test mean of mobile phone addiction, sleep quality, and mental health in the experimental and control groups at the (P˂0.05) level. From the above findings, it can be concluded that solution-focused brief therapy has been effective in reducing cell phone addiction and improving the sleep quality and mental health of students.
Type of Article:
Research |
Subject:
counseling Received: 2025/01/17 | Accepted: 2025/03/21 | ePublished: 2026/01/14