Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, , Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran , sepahvandi.mo@lu.ac.ir
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The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of schema therapy, metacognition and interpersonal therapy (IPT) on positive emotional expressiveness in students with symptoms of social anxiety at Kashmar Higher Education Center. The research method was a semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test with a control group. The statistical population of the present study included students with social anxiety at Kashmar Higher Education Center in the academic year 2024-25. From among all students who were involved in social anxiety symptoms and scored higher than the cut-off score on the social anxiety questionnaire. 60 people were selected by random sampling method and randomly assigned to four groups; First, all four groups responded to the King and Emmons (1990) Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire (pre-test). The first experimental group underwent 8 sessions of Gholamrezaei and Tehranchi (2016) schema therapy; the second experimental group underwent 8 sessions of interpersonal therapy (Oshie et al., 2015); and the third group underwent 8 sessions of Wells (2009) metacognitive therapy; and the control group did not receive any intervention. Finally, the subjects responded to the research instruments (post-test). The collected data were analyzed using SPSS software, univariate and multivariate analysis of covariance, and post-tests. The results showed that all three treatment methods had a significant effect on reducing emotional expressivity. Also, the Bonferroni post-test showed that the difference between the three methods of schema therapy, metacognitive therapy, and interpersonal therapy (IPT) in the level of effectiveness in treating emotional expressivity was not significant (P-value <0/05).
Keywords: Schema therapy, interpersonal therapy, metacognitive therapy, emotional expressiveness, social anxiety
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