jahangir karami; Barzan soliemani; Hasan Ghorbani; Anvar Dastbaz
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People with borderline personality disorder suffer from a lot of stress and negative emotions, so they experience a stressful life. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on cognitive fusion, perceived stress and autobiographical memory in ...
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People with borderline personality disorder suffer from a lot of stress and negative emotions, so they experience a stressful life. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on cognitive fusion, perceived stress and autobiographical memory in individuals with borderline personality disorder. The present study was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group. The statistical population of the study included all people with borderline personality disorder who referred to three counseling centers and a psychiatric clinic in Sanandaj in 1397, which was a total of 40 people. From this statistical population, samples of 30 people who were willing to cooperate and also available were selected, then the selected individuals were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. Initially, cognitive fusion, perceived stress and hyper-holistic narrative memory questionnaires were administered in both groups. The experimental group was then treated with Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) for 10 2-hour sessions but the control group did not receive treatment. Then post-test was performed for both groups. Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance. The results showed that acceptance and commitment-based therapy (ACT) has a significant effect autobiographical memory, cognitive fault, cognitive fusion, negative perception of stress and positive perception of stress in people with borderline personality disorder.
Abdolbust Mahmoudpour; Aboulfazl Barzegari Dahaj; Hossin Salimii Bajestani; Naser Yousefi
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Stress is among the important factors of beginning and continuing addiction. The aim of this research was to anticipate the perceived stress on the basis of emotional regulation, experiential avoidance and anxiety sensitivity. The present research is of correlation kind which falls under the explanatory ...
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Stress is among the important factors of beginning and continuing addiction. The aim of this research was to anticipate the perceived stress on the basis of emotional regulation, experiential avoidance and anxiety sensitivity. The present research is of correlation kind which falls under the explanatory projects category. Research population consisted of all of the individuals that were addicted to drugs, and who used the services of addiction treatment centers of Tehran in 1394. From among the research population 220 individuals were selected by convenience sampling method, and then filled out the questionnaires which were related to the research. Evaluation tools were emotion regulation (Gras and John, 2003), experiential avoidance (Bond et al, 2007) and anxiety avoidance (Rees et al, 1986). Regression analysis results showed that repression, experiential avoidance and anxiety sensitivity components anticipates the perceived stress in addicted individuals significantly and positively and the reevaluation component predicted it negatively and significant. Findings of the present research pointing out to the fact that psychological structures including emotional regulation, experiential avoidance and anxiety sensitivity, have important role in the perceived stress of the individuals who are addicted to drugs. Thus, in creating a psychotherapeutic basis for people who are addicted to drug, this factor should be taken into consideration.
