A Spirituality-Based Group Work Intervention Reduces the Sense of Alienation Among Female Turkish Social Work Students: A Randomized Trial

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of a spirituality-focused group intervention on the alienation levels of young women and search out exposure to a spirituality-focused group intervention reduces alienation more than no treatment.

Methods

An 8-week spirituality-focused group work was conducted and selected via a randomized controlled sampling method.

Results

For the sense of alienation, a significant main effect of time (F = 23.03, p < .01, partial η² = .56, 95% CI [0.20, 0.72]), a significant effect for groups (F = 8.82, p < .01, partial η² = .33, 95% CI [0.03, 0.57]) were observed. The interaction effect between the sense of alienation over time and the group was also found (F = 8.82, p = .27, partial η² = .07, 95% CI [0.30, 0.78]).

Conclusion

Spirituality-focused group work stands as a pivotal component in mitigating the feeling of alienation experienced by young women of university age.

Keywords

alienation spirituality group work social work

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