Helping the Helpers
Assessing Effectiveness of PERMA Model for Professional Quality of Life in Nursing Students
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https://doi.org/10.58341/srj.v3i2.79Abstract
This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of Seligman’s PERMA Model of Positive Psychology in improving the professional quality of life in helping professionals. The selected sample was practicing nursing students. They were selected through the purposive sampling technique. The study followed an experimental design and involved 27 participants from a Midwifery school in Karachi, Pakistan. The age range of the participants was 18 to 30 years (M= 20.889, SD = 2.562). With the informed consent of participants, the ProQol scale was administered to measure compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress levels before and after the intervention. The result of the research yielded an unexpected outcome demonstrating increased secondary traumatic stress (t= -4.198, p= .000), and decreased compassion satisfaction (t= 2.569, p= .016) while depicting no effect on burnout in the participants (t= .047, p= .963). This result sheds light on future enhancements with the application of the PERMA Model in helping professionals. In the future, it would be beneficial to explore the PERMA model over a longer time to maximize its effectiveness.
Keywords:
PERMA, compassion satisfaction, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, nurses
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