Students often have low quality of life and happiness due to academic and social pressures. Existential therapeutic approaches with an emphasis on meaning and responsibility can be effective, but there is not enough research in this field, especially in Torbat Heydariyeh. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of existential group therapy on improving the quality of life and happiness of students. In the present quasi-experimental study, the statistical population included students from Payam Noor and Azad Universities of Torbat Heydariyeh, whose quality of life and happiness were reported to be lower than average. From among them, 30 people were selected and randomly assigned to two groups of 15 people: experimental and control. The experimental group received 8 sessions of 90-minute existential therapy, and the control group did not receive any intervention. The results showed that after removing the pre-test effect, there was a significant difference between the experimental group (existential therapy) and the control group in the post-test scores of quality of life and happiness. These results confirm that the existential approach, emphasizing concepts such as responsibility, meaning-making, awareness of death, and freedom of choice, can be used as an effective intervention to promote students' mental health.
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عمومى دریافت: 1405/3/12 | پذیرش: 1405/3/13 | انتشار: 1405/3/31