مجله علوم پزشکی صدرا (Jul 2024)
Developing a Psychological-Emotional Empowerment Training Package Based on the Lived Experiences of Single-Parent Male Adolescents and Its Effectiveness on Cognitive Fusion
Abstract
Introduction: This study aimed to develop a psychological-emotional empowerment educational package based on the lived experiences of single-parent male adolescents and subsequently test its effectiveness on their cognitive fusion.Methods: The research method was qualitative, employing a phenomenological-descriptive approach, while the quantitative part was semi-experimental with a pre -test-post-test design, a control group, and a two-month follow-up period. The statistical population included male teenagers from single-parent families in the first period of secondary school in Abadeh city in 2022-2023. In the qualitative part, 15 single-parent male adolescents were purposefully selected and subjected to in-depth interviews. In the quantitative part, 35 adolescents were selected through purposive sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (18 in the experimental and 17 in the control group). The adolescents in the experimental group received the psychological-emotional empowerment training package over ten weeks in ten 90-minute sessions. A pre-test was performed before the intervention, a post-test after the intervention, and a follow-up phase two months later. The Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (Gillanders et al., 2014) was used in this study. The data were analyzed using mixed ANOVA and a post hoc Bonferroni test via SPSS23 software.Results: According to experts, the results showed that the psychological-emotional empowerment training package has sufficient content validity. Additionally, this training package impacted the cognitive fusion (P<0.0001; Eta=0.66; F=63.41) of single-parent male adolescents.Conclusion: Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that a training package of psychological-emotional empowerment, by fostering emotional competencies, gaining competence, autonomy, effectiveness, communication with others, empathy, and kind behavior towards others, can be an effective method to decrease cognitive fusion in single-parent male adolescents.
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