Journal of Education and Psychology

This study was to explore the effect of RET's group learning program on improving irrational beliefs and the health condition of the mid-age housewives. There were three major purposes (1) design a set of RET's group learning programs which are suitable for the native mid-age housewives; (2) explore the treatment effect of RET's group learning program on improving their irrational beliefs and health; and verify the effect of the RET's group learning program; and (3) explore the follow-up effect of the RET's group learning program on their rational beliefs and health .

The subjects were 51 mid-age housewives (45-64 years old), were randomly assigned to treatment group A, treatment group B and control group. There were 17 subJects in each group. Instruments used in the study were the irrational Belief Scale, the Mental Health Scale, and the Life Satisfaction Scale, the Coping Strategies Scale, the Disease Checklist and Symptom Checklist. After pretesting treatment groups A and B were instructed in the group learning program twelve times in a period of six weeks. Then the treatment groups were givn the posttest with the same tests. Data were analyzed by dependent sample t-test, indepent/ repeated measure one-way ANCOVA. The main finding were as follow:

1. treatment effect
   (1) After the treatment of the RET's group learning program, the mid-age housewives in groups A and B had a significant improvement (P < .001 ) with 14 items for irrational belief, mental health, life satisfaction, coping strategies, physical disease and physical symptom. (2) The difference of treatment effect between treatment groups was not significant ( P > .05). This result shows that the RET's group learning program was a stabel effect .

2. follow-up effect
   The 13 items of irrational belief, mental health, psysical disease, and physical symptoms of the treatment groups were significantly better than in the control group except the factors of frustrated -and- uneasy and unruffled mood. Besides, the group B was also signicantly better than control group in coping strategies.

This study affirmed the effect of the RET's group learning program on improving irrational beliefs and health condition of the mid-age housewives .

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