Document Type : Research Article

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1 PH. D of Psychology Student, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

2 Professor of Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

3 Assistant Professor of psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of interpersonal psychotherapy on eating disorder symptoms,its components and at the psychosocial performance of female students at Lorestan University. The present study was a field experimental study with a pretest, post-test and control group. In the study, sampling was applied in two steps. In the first step, 641 female students were randomly selected by using the multi-phase sampling method. In the next step, 32 female students, Whose scores on the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) were 20 Or above, were selected and randomly divided in experiment and control groups. In this research, the subjects completed an Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) and a Clinical Impairment Assessment Questionnaire (CIA). The experimental intervention that was performed for the experiment group consisted of 14 sessions of interpersonal psychotherapy. For data analysis, a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used. The results showed that there were significant differences between the two groups in terms of eating disorder symptoms and psychosocial performance. Therefore, interpersonal psychotherapy was effective in reducing eating disorder symptoms and its 3 components (dieting, bulimia and oral control) and improving the psychosocial performance of the experiment group in compared with the control group. 

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