The effectiveness of a counseling program based on meaning therapy in developing a positive attitude towards life for blind university students

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faculty of education-Helwan university

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The current study aimed to identify the effectiveness of a counseling program based on meaning therapy to develop a positive attitude towards life among a sample of blind university students. of (6) students, and the second was a control group consisting of (6) students, and the following tools were applied: A measure of positive attitude towards life (prepared by: the researchers), and a counseling program based on meaning therapy to develop a positive attitude towards life among blind university students (prepared by the researchers, The results of the study indicated that there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group and the mean scores of the control group in the dimensional measurement on the scale of positive attitude towards life in the direction of the experimental group, and there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group in the tribal and measurement measurements. The dimensionality on the scale of positive attitude towards life in the direction of the post-measurement, there are no statistically significant differences between the mean ranks of the experimental group scores in the post- and follow-up measures on the Positive Attitude Towards Life Scale.

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