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Shafiei L, Safikhani S. The Effectiveness of Cohesive Memory Therapy on Reducing Anxiety Symptoms and Increasing Job Motivation Among Female Contract Teachers in Khomeyni Shahr. JNIP 2024; 22 (26) :1-15
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MA Student of Educational Psychology, Deprtment of Educational Psychology, Mobarakeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh, Iran
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This study investigates the effectiveness of a group intervention using cohesive memory therapy on reducing anxiety levels and increasing job motivation among contract teachers in Khomeyni Shahr. This therapeutic intervention helps individuals feel a greater sense of worth and competence by recalling their past and valuable memories, leading to a sense of cohesion. The target group consisted of contract teachers, as the researcher’s experience and reports indicate that they often work under stressful conditions with job insecurity. Since implementing cohesive memory therapy requires age and accumulated experience, the study included contract teachers over 35 years of age who were nearing the end of their tenure, which could lead to official employment, as the legal hiring age is 40. Therefore, the main research question was whether cohesive memory therapy could serve as a solution for reducing anxiety symptoms and enhancing job motivation among contract teachers. To answer this question, a sample of 34 individuals with anxiety questionnaire scores above 15 was selected through convenience sampling from both primary education cycles and randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. The Beck Anxiety Inventory (1990) was used to measure anxiety, while the Habibi Job Motivation Questionnaire (1998) was employed to assess job motivation. After conducting the cohesive memory therapy intervention in a 60-minute introductory session followed by six 90-minute therapeutic sessions, the results showed a significant change in the experimental group’s anxiety level, decreasing from approximately 33 pre-test scores to around 11 post-test scores, reaching a mild anxiety level. The job motivation variable for the experimental group increased from about 49 scores to approximately 73 post-test scores. Utilizing paired sample t-tests for the anxiety variable revealed that the implemented therapeutic intervention significantly altered the mean anxiety and job motivation levels in the experimental group. Consequently, the null hypothesis was rejected at the 0.01 significance level, concluding that the group-based cohesive memory therapy intervention successfully reduced anxiety and increased job motivation among the participants.
Keywords: Contract Teachers, Anxiety, Job Motivation, Group Cohesive Memory Therapy, Khomeyni Shahr.
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Received: 2025/04/27 | Accepted: 2024/11/30 | Published: 2024/11/30
Received: 2025/04/27 | Accepted: 2024/11/30 | Published: 2024/11/30
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