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ABSTRACT
 
Background and aim: Emotional failure and inefficient styles of decision making tend to create a number of difficulties in everyday life with long lasting effects. This failure for prison inmates, especially the female ones, is more critical and palpable. This study aimed to teach emotional regulation on impulsivity and styles of decision-making among the female prisoners in Yasuj.
 
Methods: In the present trial-clinical and interventional study, the sample included 30 female inmates who voluntarily participated in the study and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group underwent an eight-session Grass-based emotional regulation skills training program, but the control group received no intervention. Subsequently, the training and control groups were given pretest and posttests. The instruments consisted of Barratt’s Impulsiveness and Scott and Bruce’s decision making styles questionnaire. Data were then analyzed using SPSS version 22.
 
Results: The findings showed the effect of emotional regulation training program on reducing overall (P<0.05), cognitive (P<0.001), behavioral (P<0.05), and unplanned (P<0.05) impulsivity among the female prisoners. The program also increased rational (P<0.001) and intuitive (P<0.01) decision making styles among the participants. Likewise, the intervention had a significant impact on reducing the avoidance (P<0.05), dependent (P<0.05) and immediate (P<0.05) decision making styles.
 
Conclusion: According to the results, since the teaching of the emotional regulation reduces impulsivity and increases styles of rational decision making among the prisoners,  it should be noted that professional communication in the form of emotional regulation training can result in the enhancement of knowledge and skills in controlling the negative impulsivity styles and increase rational decision.

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Background & aim: Impulsivity is one of the most important behavioral indicators of people with substance abuse, which has been studied despite its low importance. Thus, considering the importance of studying this variable, the present study aimed to determine the mediating role of drug consumption indicators in the relationship between trait impulsivity and emotional disregulation with state impulsivity in chronic methamphetamine users.

Methods: The present study was an analytical and cross-sectional study and belonged to the correlation schemes in terms of data collection and analysis methods. The statistical population included all men consuming methamphetamine who lived in addiction treatment camps in Tehran. From this statistical population, a sample of 300 people was selected using the available sampling method and these individuals were assessed using the data sampling test, difficulty scale in emotional regulation and short form of impulsive behavior scale. Data were analyzed using correlation test and path analysis.
 
Results: The findings indicated that the proposed model had a favorable fit with the data (c = 0.42 df, CFI = 1, TLI = 1.0, SRMR=0.01 and RMSEA=0.01). Duration of methamphetamine consumption (p <0.05, β = 0.12), duration of abstinence (p<0.01, β = 0.28), difficulty in purposeful behavior (p<0.05, = 0.20) β), difficulty in controlling impulses (p<0.05, β=0.20) and lack of emotional clarity (p<0.05, β = 0.18) have a significant effect, difficulty in purposeful behavior(05/05). p<, β=0.05, difficulty in controlling impulses (p<0.05, β=0.05), lack of reflection (p<0.05, β=0.06) and excitability ( P<0.05, b = 0.03) had a significant indirect effect on impulsivity.
 
Conclusion: The impulsiveness of adjective imperfections and disturbances in emotional regulation directly and indirectly affected the impulsiveness of the state in methamphetamine users. The duration of methamphetamine use and the duration of abstinence not only had a direct effect on state impulsivity, but also mediated the effect of other variables on this variable.

 

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Background & aim: Panic disorder is one of the most common anxiety disorders that despite the high range of medical and psychotherapeutic treatments, we see ineffective treatment and high recurrence of the disease, as well as high social and economic costs. Emotional dysfunction and the use of inappropriate emotion regulation strategies have an effective role in the pathology and recurrence of this disease. McCullough et.al. Have identified fear of affect as the cause of anxiety patients' conflicts, and have proposed an integrated and experimental psychodaynamic approach to reduce conflicts and regulate their anxiety and emotions.
 
Methods: Due to the importance of individual therapy in the psychodaynamic approach, in this study, the experimental design of a single subject of multiple baseline was used and the subjects were purposefully selected from the statistical population of patients in Marvdasht in 2019-2020, which included 7 patients. Treatment consisted of 20 one-hour individual sessions and three follow-up sessions over six months.
 
Results: Data were collected by lipotise and affect phobia questionnaires. Based on standard visual imaging methods, stable change index and recovery percentage, the results showed a stable change index of more than 1.96 and a recovery percentage score higher than 50 for most subjects, which indicates the effectiveness of treatment and its stability during the next six months. At the end of the treatment, it is in the field of improving the symptoms of the disease. Also, in the evaluation of the affect phobia questionnaire, the recovery percentage of six patients was more than 50 and the overall recovery percentage was 62, which explains the regulation of emotions.
 
Conclusion: By explaining affect phobia as one of the main causes of conflict in patients with anxiety and panic and with an active and supportive relationship with effective techniques of this treatment by neutralizing defense, access to underlying emotions, creating insight and emotion regulation, finally Growth and develop of the ego in relation to self and others lead to symptom improvement of the disease.