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Research title in Persian: The effectiveness of positive psychotherapy in increasing academic efficiency and reducing shame and guilt of female students aged fifteen to eighteen years with major depressive symptoms in Neishabour in 1400

The aim of the present study was the effectiveness of positive psychotherapy in increasing academic efficiency and reducing shame and guilt among female students aged 15 to 18 years with symptoms of major depression in Neishabur city in 1400. The research method of this research was correlation. The statistical population of the research is female students between the ages of fifteen and eighteen with symptoms of major depression in Neishabur city in 1400. Due to the spread of covid-19 in Neishabor city and the existence of limitations in conducting random sampling, it is inevitable to use the available sampling method to distribute and complete the questionnaire among fifteen to eighteen-year-old female students who visit the psychology clinics of this city. have done and have symptoms of depression, it is paid. Jink and Morgan (1999) questionnaire with 30 items will be used to measure academic self-efficacy, and Cohen and Wolff (2010) questionnaire with 8 items will be used to measure shame and guilt variables. Hypotheses testing and data analysis were done using multivariate regression method and SPSS version 23 software. The findings of the research indicated that positive psychotherapy has a positive and significant effect on increasing the academic efficiency of female students aged 15 to 18 years with symptoms of major depression in Neishabur city in 1400. Positive psychotherapy has a positive and significant effect on reducing shame and guilt among female students aged 15 to 18 years with symptoms of major depression in Neishabur city in 1400.

Keywords: positive psychotherapy, academic efficiency, shame and guilt, depression