Iranian Journal of War and Public Health

Aims: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of schema therapy on increasing psychological well-being, perceived social support, and psychological capital in daughters of veterans of the Iran-Iraq imposed war.
Materials & Methods: The present study is a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design in two groups. Based on the Cochran formula, 50 women of Bushehr Payame Noor University students with veteran fathers were selected purposefully and randomly divided into two experimental (n=25) and control (n=25) groups. A 12-session schema therapy was performed for the experimental group. Three questionnaires of psychological well-being, perceived social support and psychological capital were completed in both groups in the pre-test and post-test. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance.
Findings: The effectiveness of schema therapy in increasing the scores of the dependent variables of psychological capital (F=148.705), psychological well-being (F=115.69), and perceived social support (F=60.82) was significant (p=0.0001).
Conclusion: Psychological intervention in the form of modification and repair of the initial maladaptive schema leads to an increase in psychological well-being, psychological capital, and perceived social support in girls with veteran fathers.