en روان شناسی تکاملی Evolutionary Psychology پژوهشي Original <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:1;">Adolescence is one of the most important developmental stages, accompanied by emotional and psychological changes that may lead to increased anxiety and reduced life expectancy among students. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the effect of poetry and epic recitation on anxiety and life expectancy among female high school students. This study was conducted using a quasi-experimental design with a pre-test and post-test in a single experimental group. The statistical population included female high school students in Qaemshahr during the 2018&ndash;2019 academic year, from which 27 participants were selected through simple random sampling. The poetry and epic recitation program were implemented over 8 weeks (one 90-minute session per week). Data collection instruments included the Dorghotis Anxiety Questionnaire (1973) and the Snyder Life Expectancy Questionnaire (1991). Data were analyzed using paired t-test in SPSS version 22. The results showed that after the implementation of the poetry and epic recitation program, the mean anxiety score decreased from 3.30 in the pre-test to 1.52 in the post-test, while the mean life expectancy score increased from 3.15 to 3.17. Also, the results of the paired t-test indicated that these changes were statistically significant, so that poetry and epic recitation significantly reduced anxiety (p = 0.001) and significantly increased life expectancy (p = 0.001) among students. The findings indicate that poetry and epic recitation, as an effective cultural-educational intervention, plays an important role in improving the mental health status of female high school students.</span></span></span></span></div> Poetry and Epic Recitation, Anxiety, Life Expectancy 144 149 http://ieepj.hormozgan.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1196-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Salimeh Daraei fateme.daraee.55@gmail.com 100319475328460012494 100319475328460012494 Yes PhD student in lyrical literature, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran