Effect of Supportive Group Counseling on Increasing Purpose in Life of Widows in Terrorism

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The research aimed to excemine the effect of supportive group counseling on increasing purpose in life of widows in terrorism. Quantitative quasi experimental approach are applied in this study. Through purposive sampling total of 18 persons. The volunteer sample group had scores in the purpose in life test lower than 25^thpercentile. The simple randomization sampling method was used to assign sample into two groups: an experimental group and control group, with 9 widows in each. The instruments were the Purpose in Life Test: PLI (Crumbaugh & Maholick, 1969), are the administered to the treatment group before and after the program treatment. The sample group receives supportive group counseling program. The intervention was administered for 3 periods (session 8). The first period (session one) lasted about 6 hours performed together for the widows, the second period (session two - seven) lasted about 1 ½ hours and the third period (session eight) in one day lasted about 6 hours performed together for the widows. The study was divided into 3 phases: the pretest phase, the post-test phase, and the follow-up phase. The data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation and t-test. The result revealed that there was a statistically significant interaction between the method and the duration the experiment. The analysis of mean difference show the levels of purpose of life were significantly different at .05 after being subjected to the supportive group counseling program in widows when measured in the pretest and follow-up phase.