摘要:AbstractThis research has performed to examine the effectiveness of hardiness training on stress and post partum depression. The society under the study were all 223 mothers that delivered without any complications 3 till 6 months ago and for health care to one of four health centers located in four geographic areas Rasht were referred, randomly. 120 persons of them were selected as samples based on Morgan's table. Conducting the questionnaire of stress (Hari) and post partum depression (Edinbourg) showed that 55 persons of them have the highest amount of stress and post partum depression, 30 of them were selected randomly who were divided to 15 persons as the test group and 15 persons as the control group. The test group received training in 10 sessions during 2.5 months and the control group did not receive any training. After the training programmed ended a post-test was taken on both groups and the results of statistical indicators of covariance analysis showed that hardiness training had been effective on stress and post partum depression among test group at level of p<0.01. Therefore, it can be concluded that hardiness training has an effective role on reduce stress and post partum depression.