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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.
 
 

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Background & aim: Entrance to university is accompanied with major changes in social relationships, expectations and roles that make the students susceptible for mental problems that one of them is emotional blow. Logotherapy is one of the methods of treatment for communication and emotional problems. The purpose of this research was to investigate the efficacy of group logo therapy on Symptoms of feeling loneliness and psychological hardiness 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 Feeling loneliness (1980) And had the lowest score in psychological hardiness (1998) 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 Feeling loneliness (F=9.76) and psychological hardiness (F=21.8) 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 Feeling loneliness and increase in psychological hardiness 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 reduction in feeling loneliness and promotion of psychological hardiness of female students with love trauma syndrome. Therefore it is possible to raise the level of meaningfulness of life by increasing the coping ability of individuals against psychological stress and reduced their loneliness.

 

 Group Logo therapy, hardiness, loneliness, love Trauma, female students.

 

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Background & aim: The family is the place to satisfy various physical, intellectual and emotional needs, and having awareness of biological and psychological needs and knowing how to satisfy them and being equipped with techniques and recognizing biological and psychological tendencies is an undeniable necessity. The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of teaching emotion management strategies based on emotionally focused couple therapy (EFT) and schema-based couple therapy on couples' communication patterns.

Methods: The present semi-experimental study used a pre-test and post-test design and follow-up with a control group. The studied community included all couples with marital dissatisfaction who referred to the psychological clinic of Tankabon, Iran, to solve their problems; And the research sample included 45 couples who were selected by purposeful sampling and were randomly divided into three experimental groups: 1 (15 couples), 2 (15 couples) and control (15 couples). The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of teaching emotion management strategies based on emotion-oriented couple therapy (EFT) and schema-based couple therapy on communication patterns of couples. The collected data were analyzed using ANOVA, Shapiro-Wilk, Lunn, Bonferroni and Greenhouse tests.

Results: The results indicated that training emotion management strategies based on emotion-oriented couple therapy (EFT) and schema-based couple therapy increased communication patterns compared to the control group (P<0.05). There was a statistically significant difference between the effectiveness of teaching emotion management strategies based on emotion-oriented couple therapy (EFT) and schema-based couple therapy on communication patterns of couples in the post-test and follow-up stages (P<0.05). And teaching emotion management strategies based on emotion-oriented couple therapy approach was more effective than schema-based couple therapy in communication patterns of couples.
Conclusion: As a result, emotion training and self-awareness training is an effective method in increasing communication patterns of couples.