Abstract

Background & aim: Entrance to university is accompanied with major changes in social relationships, expectations and roles that make the students susceptible for mental problems that one of them is emotional blow. Logotherapy is one of the methods of treatment for communication and emotional problems. The purpose of this research was to investigate the efficacy of group logo therapy on Symptoms of feeling loneliness and psychological hardiness of female students with love trauma syndrome.

Methods: The present research was of applied research type. The research method was semi-empirical with a pretest-posttest with control group design. Populations were all female students of Rasht Azad University and were selected through voluntary sampling method. Sample numbers were 30 students that gained high scores on Feeling loneliness (1980) And had the lowest score in psychological hardiness (1998) randomly assigned to control and experiment groups (each group included 15 students). The experiment group exposed to 10 instruction sessions of group logo therapy. But the control group did not receive any interventions. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics method and multivariate covariance analysis (MANCOVA) in SPSS v.20.

Results: The multivariate covariance analysis results for Feeling loneliness (F=9.76) and psychological hardiness (F=21.8) suggested that there was a significant difference between the Girls of experiment and control groups (P< 0.01). According to the posttest scores of the experiment control groups for these two variables, it was recognized that the Group Logo therapy has led to reduction in Feeling loneliness and increase in psychological hardiness among the Girls of the experiment group in comparison to the control group in the posttest stage.

Conclusion: The results of this study show that participating in Group Logo therapy meeting can affect reduction in feeling loneliness and promotion of psychological hardiness of female students with love trauma syndrome. Therefore it is possible to raise the level of meaningfulness of life by increasing the coping ability of individuals against psychological stress and reduced their loneliness.

 Group Logo therapy, hardiness, loneliness, love Trauma, female students.