Mojtaba Sourian Reihanpour; Mahsa Kashefizadeh
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IntroductionDivorce reflects a flaw in different aspects of life and the dynamics of the family structure, and it is associated with higher levels of hostility in both women and men. Furthermore, divorce indicates the inability of the family which usually manifests itself in the form of unstable, dogmatic, ...
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IntroductionDivorce reflects a flaw in different aspects of life and the dynamics of the family structure, and it is associated with higher levels of hostility in both women and men. Furthermore, divorce indicates the inability of the family which usually manifests itself in the form of unstable, dogmatic, or turbulent family patterns. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the group cognitive behavioral therapy on attributional styles, coping strategies, and alexithymia of divorced applicant couples in Eqlid city.MethodThis is a quasi-experimental study with three pre-test, post-test, and follow-up stages with two experimental and control groups. From all divorced applicant couples referring to the Social Emergency Centers of Eqlid, 40 individuals were selected by the available sampling method and they were assigned to two experimental and control groups by completely random allocation. The participants of the experimental group underwent the group cognitive-behavioral therapy for 12 sessions over three months (one day a week and each session for 120 minutes). The Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ), Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WoCQ), and Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (FTAS-20) were used to collect data during pre-test, post-test, and follow-up stages. Then, data were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance.ResultsThe results showed that individuals in the experimental group in comparison to persons in the control group had significantly higher performance in all components of attributional styles (except seeking social support subscale), coping strategies, and alexithymia. Also, the effects of the group cognitive-behavioral therapy were stable until the four-month follow-up.DiscussionMental health professionals can apply these findings to promoting a couple's mental well-being and reducing marital conflict among couples in both clinical and non-clinical settings. Also, these results are useful for effective treatment and prevention goals by family and community psychologists who work with dysfunctional families and divorced applicant couples.
Family Psychology
Mahbobeh Abbasi Ghomi; Hasan Heydari; Mojtaba Mahamodi
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The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotion-oriented schema therapy and combined behavioral therapy on sexual self-esteem, quality of marital relationship, communication patterns and emotional narcissism in conflicting couples referred to counseling centers in Qom. The family is ...
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The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotion-oriented schema therapy and combined behavioral therapy on sexual self-esteem, quality of marital relationship, communication patterns and emotional narcissism in conflicting couples referred to counseling centers in Qom. The family is the main core of every society and the center of maintaining people's health and mental health, and it is not the only place to meet the emotional, material, developmental and spiritual needs of its members, but the origin of human emotions and the center of the most intimate relationships and interactions. It is also interpersonal. The concept of family and the value of this social institution is considered as the basic work for every government and society, and every society, according to its values, first goes to the family to help its society from within. For this reason, the family is one of the first institutions that must change in society. Therefore, the foundation of the family is formed based on the marriage contract between the husband and wife so that they can experience a peaceful and happy life together, but unfortunately, abundant evidence indicates that couples in today's society Establishing and maintaining intimate and friendly relationships have severe and difficult problems. One of the common problems in couples' relationships that has attracted the attention of therapists is couples' conflicts. Conflict in relationships occurs when a person's behavior does not match the other person's expectations. All over the world, there is an increasing concern about increasing the level of marital conflict and its serious effect on the functioning and stability of the family. MethodSemi-experimental research method with pretest design - Post-test with two experimental groups and a control group and the statistical population, including all women with marital conflicts referred to counseling centers in Qom province in 2021. From this population, 21 couples were selected by sampling method and randomly divided into three groups: emotion-oriented schema therapy (7 couples), integrated behavior (7 couples) and control (7 couples). Both experimental groups received ten 60-minute training sessions. Subjects were examined before the intervention, at the end of the intervention, and at the follow-up stage for three months using the Toronto Alexithymia Questionnaire (1986), Schwartz (1996) Sexual Self-Esteem Questionnaire, the quality of subsequent marital relationships, et al. (1995), and Christ's age and relationship patterns. Salavi (1984) Assessing Assistance. The data were analyzed with the help of SPSS software and multivariate covariance analysis method. ResultsThe findings showed a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in sexual self-esteem, marital relationship quality, constructive communication patterns, and emotional ataxia in the post-test phase. The results showed that emotional schema therapy increased the results of three variables: self-esteem, quality of marital relationship, and mutual constructive communication, and decreased the three variables of withdrawal expectation, mutual communication, and emotional dyslexia. Emotional-centered couple therapy is effective on emotional apathy, relationship quality, sexual self-esteem, and communication patterns among conflicting couples. In explaining the above results, it can be said: the goal of couple therapy based on schema-emotional therapy is to change emotional patterns that are linked to communication problems.DiscussionTherefore, according to the research, it can be concluded that emotion-oriented schema therapy can increase sexual self-esteem, the quality of relationships and communication patterns, and reduce Alexithymia. In the model of emotional schemas, people differ from each other in terms of the interpretation and evaluations they make of their emotional experience, and they may try to deal with their emotions with different strategies such as experiential avoidance, ineffective cognitive strategies, social support, or other strategies. to deal with, which causes mental disorders and on the one hand, the formation of high conflicts between couples, but during the process of treatment with various techniques, including cognitive reconstruction, couples with problems are changed or adjusted, and this model is based on this principle. It is established that emotional disorders are caused by beliefs, interpretations and strategies used to deal with emotions. Therefore, interventions related to emotional schemas can be effective on marital satisfaction and marital problems, and subsequently reduce conflicts in couples.
Mahnaz Bahadori; Mahnaz Mehrabizadeh honarmand; Parviz Askary; Hasan Ahadi; Leila Moradi
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The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of compassion focused therapy and positivist psychology with well-being approach on alexithymia, adaptive behavior and adherence to treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes. The research design was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest ...
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The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of compassion focused therapy and positivist psychology with well-being approach on alexithymia, adaptive behavior and adherence to treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes. The research design was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with control group. The sample size included 45 patients with type 2 diabetes who were selected by purposive sampling. Of these, 15 were assigned to the experimental group of compassion focused therapy, 15 to the experimental group of positivist psychology with well-being approach and 15 to the control group by simple random sampling. To collect research data, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (Bagby et al., 1994), the Psycho-social Adjustment with Illness Scale (Derogatis, 1990) and the Adherence Questionnaire (Modanloo, 2013) were used. The compassion focused experimental group received 8 sessions of two-hour intervention and the experimental group of positive psychology with well-being approach received 8 two-hour sessions, too. Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) was used to analyze the data. The results showed that both therapeutic approaches in the post-test phase had a significant effect on alexithymia, adaptive behavior and adherence to treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes (p<0.05). There was no significant difference between the two intervention methods in each of the dependent variables. Based on the findings, it can be said that the application of both therapeutic approaches is effective in reducing alexithymia and increasing the level of adaptive behavior as well as adherence to treatment.
masoumeh nazari; majid yousefi afrashteh; zekrollah morovati
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The present study examined the Effect of brief mindfulness training on recall of emotional words in Individuals with and without alexithymia. This research method was interventional (quasi-experimental) with factorial design. Statistical population of this research was included all girl students of secondary ...
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The present study examined the Effect of brief mindfulness training on recall of emotional words in Individuals with and without alexithymia. This research method was interventional (quasi-experimental) with factorial design. Statistical population of this research was included all girl students of secondary school in aged 15 to 16 years old In the academic year of 2018-19 In the tenth grade in high schools in the city of Zanjan that have studied in. the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) was distributed -through convenience sampling- among 150 students for screening. In the next step, randomly selected 40 students (20 with alexithymia) and (20 without alexithymia) and placed by peers in the two control and experimental groups. After performing a pretest emotional word’s for both groups, the experimental group 4 sessions 45 minutes were trained in brief mindfulness and then, posttest emotional word’s was performed for both groups. Data were analyzed by spss software version 22. To answer research questions was used multivariate analysis of variance and One-variable Analysis of Covariance. the results showed that the most significant difference was related to recall of negative word’s in the group that received the brief mindfulness training, which is among this group too given the interactive effect Individuals with alexithymia most significant difference was related Individuals without alexithymia . Received the brief mindfulness training on recall of positive and neutral word’s there was no significant difference. .
Gholamreza sedighrad; Parviz Askary; Alireza Heydarii; Naser Seraj khorami
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AIM: The aim of this research was to study the comparison of the effectiveness of the acceptance-commitment therapy on the behaviour impulsively, alexithymia and disappointment in depression patients.Methods: This design of the study was pretest, post test control group. The sample include 30 depression ...
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AIM: The aim of this research was to study the comparison of the effectiveness of the acceptance-commitment therapy on the behaviour impulsively, alexithymia and disappointment in depression patients.Methods: This design of the study was pretest, post test control group. The sample include 30 depression patients 15 group experimental (acceptance and commitment therapy), and 15 group control) were selected randomaly sampling andthe were requested to answer behaviour impulsively Baratscale, alexithymia Torento and disappointment Miler scalequestionnaire. For analyzing the results we used covariance (MANCOVA and ANCOVA).Results: The results of data analysis showed that as ap acceptance-commitment therapy caused thedecrease inbehaviour impulsively, alexithymia and disappointment in depression patients experimental group in comparison to the witness group and concluded that there is any significant difference between effectivenessof the acceptance-commitment therapy on the behaviour impulsively, alexithymia and disappointment in depression patients and acceptance-commitment therapy was more effectiveness on thedecrease behaviour impulsively, alexithymia and disappointment in depression patients.Conclusion: That as ap acceptance-commitment therapy caused the decrease inbehaviour impulsively,alexithymia and disappointment in depression patients andacceptance-commitment therapy was more effectivenesson the decrease incognitivebehaviour impulsively, alexithymia and disappointment in depression patients.
A Khodai; Masoud Bagheri; f kh
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The Relationship between mind fullness, Self-differentiation and Borderline personality traits with the mediation role of AlexithymiaAkram Khodaee , Masood Bagheri Aims and Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the Relationship between mind fullness, Self-differentiation and Borderline ...
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The Relationship between mind fullness, Self-differentiation and Borderline personality traits with the mediation role of AlexithymiaAkram Khodaee , Masood Bagheri Aims and Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the Relationship between mind fullness, Self-differentiation and Borderline personality traits with the mediation role of AlexithymiaMaterial & Methods: In this descriptive-correlational study, 309 students (217 females and 92 males) were recruited from Shahid Bahonar university of Kerman through random clustered sampling method. The instruments used in this study were the Five- facet mindfulness questionnaire (FFMQ), Toronto alexithymia scale (TAS), Borderline Personality inventory (BPI) and Differentiation of Self Inventory (DSI). Data were analyzed through SPSS22 and Mplus5 software packages and using path analysis and mediation analysis. Findings: Finding indicated that mind fullness and Self-differentiation had a significant indirect negative effect on subscales of borderline personality disorder through the mediating of alexithymia. Conclusion: Results indicated that mind fullness and Self-differentiation were recognized as the most important variable predicting Borderline personality traits of students.
M. A. Besharat
Volume 20, Issue 2 , December 2013, , Pages 19-38
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The aim of this study was to examine mediation effect of self-regulation on the relationship between secure, avoidant, and ambivalent attachment styles with alexithymia in a sample of Iranian general population. A total of 612 volunteers (282 men, 330 women) participated in this study. All participants ...
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The aim of this study was to examine mediation effect of self-regulation on the relationship between secure, avoidant, and ambivalent attachment styles with alexithymia in a sample of Iranian general population. A total of 612 volunteers (282 men, 330 women) participated in this study. All participants were asked to complete Adult Attachment Inventory (AAI), Toronto Alexithymia Scale (FTAS-20), and Short version of the Self-Regulation Inventory (SRI-S). Secure attachment style showed a significant negative relationship with alexithymia, while avoidant and ambivalent attachment styles showed a significant positive relationship with alexithymia. Analysis of the data revealed that self-regulation partially mediated the relationship between attachment styles and alexithymia. It is found that secure and insecure attachment styles can predict changes of alexithymia through self-regulation in opposite directions. Based on the results of the present study, it can be concluded that mediation effect of self-regulation on the relationship between attachment styles and alexithymia is partial.
I. Davoudi; M. Fatahinia; Y. Zargar
Volume 17, Issue 2 , December 2010, , Pages 213-234
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The aim of the present study was to compare perfectionism, alexithymia and mental health between patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and healthy population in Clients of Ahvaz clinics of digestive diseases. The participants consisted of 72 patients and 72 healthy individual selected from retinue ...
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The aim of the present study was to compare perfectionism, alexithymia and mental health between patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and healthy population in Clients of Ahvaz clinics of digestive diseases. The participants consisted of 72 patients and 72 healthy individual selected from retinue of patients. All patients were clinically investigated by a gastroenterologist for IBS. Psychological variables were measured by the TAS-20, APS and GHQ Quesstionnaires. Differences between two groups were significant in Alexithymia, Perfectionism and mental health. Scores of Alexithymia, mean scores of Perfectionism and mental health problems were significantly higher in patients group than normal group.
