Taḥqīqāt-i ̒Ulūm-i Raftārī (Apr 2024)
The Effectiveness of Emotional Schema Therapy on Regulating Emotions and Reducing High-Risk Behaviors in Female Adolescents
Abstract
Aim and Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotional schema therapy on emotion regulation and reduction of high-risk behaviors in female adolescents. Methods and Materials: This was a semi-experimental with pretest-posttest design and control group .in which 30 people, as a sample, were randomly selected from 14- to 18-year-old junior high school girls in Mashhad who had high-risk behaviors and problems in Emotion regulation and have been referred to the Education Counseling Center of Khorasan Razavi Province, and were randomly divided into experimental (n = 15) and control (n = 15) groups. In this study, the clinical interview form of children and adolescents, the Grass Emotion Regulation Strategies Questionnaire (ERQ) and the Iranian Adolescents Risk Scale (IARS) were used. Findings: The results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in all components of high-risk behaviors except tendency to violence, so that the mean post-test scores of the experimental group were significantly less than that of the control group. In addition, there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in emotion regulation strategies, so that in the reappraisal strategy, the mean scores of the experimental group were significantly higher than that of the control group, and in the suppression strategy, the mean scores of the experimental group were significantly less than that of the control group. Conclusions: In conclusion, emotional schema therapy was effective in regulating emotions and reducing high-risk behaviors in female adolescents.
