1- Department of Public Psychology, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran, , asadimajreh_psy@yahoo.com 2- Department of Public Psychology, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran, 3- Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran, 4- Department of Psychology, Assistant Professor, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
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Abstract
Background & Aim: Students face a lot of emotional problems and stress that affect their individual and adaptation as well as their quality of life. One of the things that threatens their health is emotional failure. Logo therapy is one of the existing approaches in the therapy field, the efficiency of which has been established for resolving many emotional problems. The purpose of the present research was to investigate the efficacy of group logo therapy on Symptoms of emotional failure and Emotion Cognitive Regulation of female students with love trauma syndrome.
Methods: The present research was of applied research type. The research method was semi-empirical with a pretest-posttest with control group design. Populations were all female students of Rasht Azad University and were selected through voluntary sampling method. Sample numbers were 30 students that gained high scores on Love Trauma Inventory (1999) and had the lowest score in Emotion Cognitive Regulation (2006) randomly assigned to control and experiment groups (each group included 15 students). The experiment group exposed to 10 instruction sessions of group logo therapy. But the control group did not receive any interventions. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics method and multivariate covariance analysis (MANCOVA) in SPSS v.20.
Results: The multivariate covariance analysis results for Symptoms of love Trauma (F=5.69), Make it less important (F=181.51), Reappraisal (F=232.25), Reprogramming (F=366.27), Focus again (F=399.34), Acceptance (F=11.95), Blame others (F=307.25), Catastrophe (F=51.53), Mental crawl (F=63.11), and self Blame (F=51.20), suggested that there was a significant difference between the Girls of experiment and control groups (P< 0.01). According to the posttest scores of the experiment control groups for these two variables, it was recognized that the Group Logo therapy has led to reduction in Symptoms of love Trauma, reduction in Incompatible strategies for cognitive emotion regulation and increase in Compatible strategies for cognitive emotion regulation among the Girls of the experiment group in comparison to the control group in the posttest stage.
Conclusion: The results of this study show that participating in Group Logo therapy meeting can affect Reduce on Symptoms of love Trauma and promotion of Emotion Cognitive Regulation of female students with love trauma syndrome. Therefore resistance to stress and Negative emotions can be increased by Life Meaningfulness and doing so promote health.
Aghajani M, Akbari B, Khalatbari J, Sadighi A. Effectiveness of Group Logo therapy on Symptoms of love Trauma and Emotion Cognitive Regulation of the Girls suffering from Emotional Failure. armaghanj 2018; 23 (4) :428-444 URL: http://armaghanj.yums.ac.ir/article-1-2060-en.html