The Effectiveness of Mindfulness Group Training on Psychological Well-Being and Job Satisfaction in Female Employees of the Tabriz City Welfare Department

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1 1- Department of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

2 Department of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

10.30473/jpsy.2025.72380.1074

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The importance of employee job satisfaction is growing in all organizations. In this regard, the purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness training on the psychological well-being and job satisfaction of female employees of the Welfare Department of Tabriz city. The statistical population of the study was welfare workers in Tabriz city. Thirty people (15 in the experimental group and 15 in the control group) selected as available and randomly assigned to the groups and participated in the study as samples. The psychological well-being questionnaires of Rief (2002) and the job satisfaction by Smith (1969) completed by the participants before and after the training sessions. Mindfulness group training intervention sessions conducted for eight sessions, each session lasting 2 hours, for the experimental group. The results of multivariate and univariate covariance analysis showed that mindfulness training increases psychological well-being (F (1.27) =29.7819 and p˂0.05) and also increases job satisfaction (F (1.27) =18.841) and p˂0.05) of employees in the experimental group was effective. It can conclude that training in mindfulness techniques can increase psychological well-being and job satisfaction of employees

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