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Volume 24, Issue 148 (6-2025)
Journal of Psychological Science 2025, 24(148): 211-227 |
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izadi E, jajarmi M, Bakhshipour A. (2025). Comparing the effectiveness of compassion therapy (cft) and emotion-focused therapy (eft) on fear of loneliness and negative evaluation and dyslexia of teenage girls with psychosomatic problems. Journal of Psychological Science. 24(148), 211-227.
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URL: http://psychologicalscience.ir/article-1-2646-en.html
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran , mahmoud.Jajarmi@gmail.com
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Background: One of the types of disorders that may arise as a result of suppressing emotions for adolescents is psychosomatic disorders. Considering the role of emotions in the occurrence of emotional alexithymia and the aggravation of psychosomatic disorders, it seems that including effective treatments for it is compassion-focused therapy and emotion-oriented therapy. There is a research gap regarding the comparison of the efficacy of compassion-focused therapy and emotion-oriented therapy on alexithymia for adolescents girls with psychosomatic problems.
Aims: The purpose of this research was to compare the efficacy of compassion-focused therapy and emotion-oriented therapy on emotional alexithymia of adolescent girls with psychosomatic problems in Mashhad.
Methods: The method of this research was a semi-experimental pretest-posttest type with a control group and a one-month follow-up. The statistical population of the research included all female students aged 15 to 18 years old with psychosomatic problems who were studying in the second period high school in the 3rd district of Mashhad in the academic year of 2023-2024 (250 people), of which 45 people were selected by purposeful sampling method and were randomly placed in two experimental groups (compassion-focused therapy and emotion-oriented therapy) and control group (15 people in each group). The data collection tools in the research included the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (Bagby et al., 1994). The first experimental group received 8 90-minute sessions of compassion-focused therapy (Gilbert, 2010) and the second experimental group received 8 90-minute sessions of emotion-oriented therapy (Greenberg, 2011). Analysis of variance with repeated measurements and SPSS-26 software were used for data analysis.
Results: The results showed that treatments compassion-focused and emotion- oriented on alexithymia of adolescent girls with psychosomatic symptoms were effective (P< 0.001). The results of Benferroni's post hoc tests also showed that both types of treatment have the same efficacy on the alexithymia of adolescent girls with psychosomatic symptoms (P< 0.001).
Conclusion: According to the findings of this research, adolescent therapists and school counselors can use both types of compassion-focused therapy and emotion-oriented therapy to reduce alexithymia in adolescent girls with psychosomatic problems.
Aims: The purpose of this research was to compare the efficacy of compassion-focused therapy and emotion-oriented therapy on emotional alexithymia of adolescent girls with psychosomatic problems in Mashhad.
Methods: The method of this research was a semi-experimental pretest-posttest type with a control group and a one-month follow-up. The statistical population of the research included all female students aged 15 to 18 years old with psychosomatic problems who were studying in the second period high school in the 3rd district of Mashhad in the academic year of 2023-2024 (250 people), of which 45 people were selected by purposeful sampling method and were randomly placed in two experimental groups (compassion-focused therapy and emotion-oriented therapy) and control group (15 people in each group). The data collection tools in the research included the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (Bagby et al., 1994). The first experimental group received 8 90-minute sessions of compassion-focused therapy (Gilbert, 2010) and the second experimental group received 8 90-minute sessions of emotion-oriented therapy (Greenberg, 2011). Analysis of variance with repeated measurements and SPSS-26 software were used for data analysis.
Results: The results showed that treatments compassion-focused and emotion- oriented on alexithymia of adolescent girls with psychosomatic symptoms were effective (P< 0.001). The results of Benferroni's post hoc tests also showed that both types of treatment have the same efficacy on the alexithymia of adolescent girls with psychosomatic symptoms (P< 0.001).
Conclusion: According to the findings of this research, adolescent therapists and school counselors can use both types of compassion-focused therapy and emotion-oriented therapy to reduce alexithymia in adolescent girls with psychosomatic problems.
Keywords: compassion-focused therapy, emotion-oriented therapy, alexithymia, adolescent girls, psychosomatic problems
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