Effects of personal strength training on adolescent physical symptoms

Abstract

The intention is to compare the efficacy of an intervention program focused on training personal strengths, with respect to another intervention program based on training social skills and techniques to reduce stress and a control group on the waiting list, to reduce physical symptoms of adolescents. The trainings were applied collectively and consisted of six intervention sessions of two hours each. The participants were 65 secondary school students aged between 13 and 16 years. The results show that the training program focused on the development of personal strengths is more effective in improving physical symptoms than other training program or the absence of it.