Comparison of Effectiveness of the Horney's Psychoanlyisis  and the Cognitiv Psychotherapy on Conflict Resoloution Styles of Neurotic Women

Feizabadi, Zohreh; Makvand Hosseini, Shahrokh; Sabahi, Parviz; Rafieinia, Parvin

doi:10.22055/psy.2020.31925.2462

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

¹ Department of psychology, Faculty of psychology and educational sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

² Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22055/psy.2020.31925.2462

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Karen Horney's psychoanalysis and cognitive therapy on conflict resolution styles of neurotic women in Tehran. The research method is quasi-experimental with randomized controlled design with two experimental and one control group. The statistical population includes married women who referred to counseling centers in East of Tehran in 2016 - 2017 due to problems with their spouse. The sample of the study was available sample and included 45 married women who were neuroticized according to the results of the " Horney-Coolidge Tridimensional Inventory" distributed before intervention. Experimental groups received 15 sessions of individual counseling with cognitive therapy and Horney's Psychoanalysis approach.Rahim Conflict Resolution Styles Inventory was distributed among the experimental groups in three stages baseline, mid stage and end of intervention and simultaneously for the control group. Data were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance. The results showed that the effect of time and time*groups on integrated, avoidant, dominant and obliging conflict resolution styles was significant. Comparing the efficacy of the two therapies showed that both experimental groups had a significant increase in integrated conflict resolution style and a significant decrease in avoidant conflict resolution style compared to the control group and were not significantly different from each other. Compromising conflict style increased significantly in cognitive therapy group compared to control group and Horney's Psychoanalysis group. Obliging conflict style was significantly reduced in Horney's Psychoanalysis group compared to control and cognitive therapy group.

Keywords

20.1001.1.22286144.1399.27.2.11.5

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Comparison of Effectiveness of the Horney's Psychoanlyisis and the Cognitiv Psychotherapy on Conflict Resoloution Styles of Neurotic Women

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Volume 27, Issue 2 - Serial Number 24November 2020Pages 211-232

Volume 27, Issue 2 - Serial Number 24
November 2020
Pages 211-232