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Benefits of Positive Psychology-Based Story Reading on Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being
The importance of complete mental health in school context has recently begun to attract a lot of attention. Positive psychology interventions are often associated with improvement in mental health outcomes, but few studies have examined whether story reading is an intervention that is linked with i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8731136/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35013685 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-021-09891-4 |
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author | Arslan, Gökmen Yıldırım, Murat Zangeneh, Masood Ak, İsmail |
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description | The importance of complete mental health in school context has recently begun to attract a lot of attention. Positive psychology interventions are often associated with improvement in mental health outcomes, but few studies have examined whether story reading is an intervention that is linked with indicators of complete mental health. This study investigated the effects of story reading interventions on both positive and negative indicators of mental health over time for a group of Turkish grade 10 high school students (n = 53). These included 33 students in a story reading group and 20 in a control group for comparison. The results showed that story reading led to improvement in students’ mindfulness, optimism, happiness, and positive emotions, and also caused reduction in depression, anxiety, pessimism, and other negative emotions over a 5-week period, with a small to large effect sizes. The obtained results are discussed in the context of their implications for potential psychological interventions in high school settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-87311362022-01-06 Benefits of Positive Psychology-Based Story Reading on Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being Arslan, Gökmen Yıldırım, Murat Zangeneh, Masood Ak, İsmail Child Indic Res Article The importance of complete mental health in school context has recently begun to attract a lot of attention. Positive psychology interventions are often associated with improvement in mental health outcomes, but few studies have examined whether story reading is an intervention that is linked with indicators of complete mental health. This study investigated the effects of story reading interventions on both positive and negative indicators of mental health over time for a group of Turkish grade 10 high school students (n = 53). These included 33 students in a story reading group and 20 in a control group for comparison. The results showed that story reading led to improvement in students’ mindfulness, optimism, happiness, and positive emotions, and also caused reduction in depression, anxiety, pessimism, and other negative emotions over a 5-week period, with a small to large effect sizes. The obtained results are discussed in the context of their implications for potential psychological interventions in high school settings. Springer Netherlands 2022-01-06 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8731136/ /pubmed/35013685 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-021-09891-4 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Arslan, Gökmen Yıldırım, Murat Zangeneh, Masood Ak, İsmail Benefits of Positive Psychology-Based Story Reading on Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being |
title | Benefits of Positive Psychology-Based Story Reading on Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being |
title_full | Benefits of Positive Psychology-Based Story Reading on Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being |
title_fullStr | Benefits of Positive Psychology-Based Story Reading on Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being |
title_full_unstemmed | Benefits of Positive Psychology-Based Story Reading on Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being |
title_short | Benefits of Positive Psychology-Based Story Reading on Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being |
title_sort | benefits of positive psychology-based story reading on adolescent mental health and well-being |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8731136/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35013685 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-021-09891-4 |
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