The Hummingbird Project: A Positive Psychology Intervention for Secondary School Students

The Effects of Positive Psychology Intervention on Self-Efficacy and Psychological Hardiness of Female Students

The Effects of Positive Psychology Intervention on Self-Efficacy and Psychological Hardiness of Female Students   S.A.A. Mortazavi Emami [1] Gh. Ahghar, Ph.D. [2] Z. Pirani, Ph.D. [3] H. Heidari, Ph.D. [4] R. HamidiPour, Ph.D. [5]   This study was carried out to determine the effects of positive psychology intervention on self-efficacy and psychological hardiness of female students. The...

Positive Psychology at School: A School-Based Intervention to Promote Adolescents’ Mental Health and Well-Being

The present study evaluated a positive psychology school-based intervention aimed at enhancing mental health and empowering the entire educational staff and students at a large middle school in the center of Israel. 537 seventhto ninth-grade students participated in a 1 year intervention program and were compared to 501 students in a demographically similar control school. In a 2-year longitudi...

Effectiveness of a school-based intervention on physical activity for high school students in Brazil: the Saude na Boa project.

BACKGROUND We evaluated the effectiveness of a school-based intervention on the promotion of physical activity among high school students in Brazil: the Saude na Boa project. METHODS A school-based, randomized trial was carried out in 2 Brazilian cities: Recife (northeast) and Florianopolis (south). Ten schools in each city were matched by size and location, and randomized into intervention o...

Planning , implementation and evaluation of the project ‘ school of entrepreneurial competitiveness in the labor market for secondary grammar school students ’

Effect of Educational Intervention based on the Theory of Planned Behavior on Preventing Water Pipe Smoking in Secondary School Students

Aims: Water pipe smoking, especially among young people, has been on the rise and the increasing prevalence of tobacco use among students is worrying. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of educational intervention based on the theory of planned behavior on preventing water pipe smoking in secondary school students. Materials & Methods: This semi-experimental study was performe...