Farzad ghaderi; Mehrdad kalantari; Hosseinali mehrabi
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The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of group schema therapy on the modified early maladaptive schemas and reduction of social anxiety disorder symptoms in students. This was an experimental research, and a pre-test, post-test and control group design was applied. The statistical population ...
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The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of group schema therapy on the modified early maladaptive schemas and reduction of social anxiety disorder symptoms in students. This was an experimental research, and a pre-test, post-test and control group design was applied. The statistical population of this study included male students in Isfahan University with social anxiety disorder symptoms in the academic year 1392-93. The sample of the study included 20 male students among the male students in Isfahan University identified by the scales of Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) through simple random sampling. Then, they were assigned to two groups of control and experimental (n1=n2=10), and assessed with early maladaptive schemas scale and Social Phobia Inventory. The Experimental group received group schema therapy training for 2 months (8 sessions of 90 minutes) while the control group received no training at all. The results of multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) showed that group schema therapy in reducing symptoms of social anxiety and fear of negative evaluation and avoidance is effective, but no significant effect on symptoms of physiologically distress. In addition, the results showed that schema therapy were significantly improved early maladaptive schemas in all except two schemas abandonment / instability and subjugation (p < 0/05). Schema therapy can be used as an effective intervention for early maladaptive schemas modification and reduction of social anxiety disorder symptoms.
Fahimeh Pirsaghi; Ali Mohammad Nazari; Mehrdad Hajihassani; Hassan Nad-Alipour
Volume 4, Issue 16 , December 2014, , Pages 19-34
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The present study aims to study the effectiveness of selfdifferentiation therapy on assertiveness of female students of AllamehTabataba’i University. The research employed ...
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The present study aims to study the effectiveness of selfdifferentiation therapy on assertiveness of female students of AllamehTabataba’i University. The research employed a semi-experimentaldesign with pre-test and post-test. Using convenience samplingmethod, 20 subjects were selected from among first-yearundergraduate female students of the Faculty of Psychology andEducational Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University. The samplepopulated was randomly assigned into two groups, namely experimentand control groups, each consisting of 10 people. The experimentgroup received 8 sessions of self-differentiation therapy. The controlgroup received no intervention. The data was analyzed usingCovariance analysis. The results showed that self-differentiationtherapy was effective on improvement of assertiveness (P<0.01).Generally, it can be concluded that self-differentiation therapy helpedto increase the level of assertiveness of the participants.
