The effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Well-being Training on Occupational Stress, Resilience and Academic Optimism in Female Teachers

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran.

2 M.A. Student in Educational Psychology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness-based well-being training on occupational stress, resilience, and academic optimism among female teachers in Zahedan. This study employed a quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest control group. The statistical population comprised all female elementary school teachers in Zahedan during the 2024-2025 academic year, from which 40 participants were selected using multistage random sampling and randomly assigned to experimental (n=20) and control (n=20) groups. The experimental group received mindfulness training over eight two-hour sessions. The research instruments included the Occupational Stress Inventory (Osipow, 1998), the Academic Optimism Questionnaire (Beard et al., 2010), and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (2003). Data were analyzed using Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA). The results demonstrated that mindfulness-based well-being training had a significant effect on reducing occupational stress (F=36.37, p=0.001, η²=0.51) and increasing academic optimism (F=24.17, p=0.001, η²=0.41) and resilience (F=6.84, p=0.013, η²=0.16) among teachers. The effect sizes indicated a strong impact of the intervention on improving the studied variables. Therefore, it can be concluded that mindfulness-based well-being training can be utilized as an effective intervention to promote mental health and reduce occupational pressures among teachers.

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Iranian Journal of Organizational psychology
Volume 2, Issue 4
December 2025
Pages 49-58

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