مجله علوم روانشناختی (Dec 2023)
The effectiveness of barlow\'s transdiagnostic treatment on the emotional well-being of adolescents with nomophobia
Abstract
Background: One of the psychological interventions that can target the emotional well-being of adolescents with nomophobia is Barlow's transdiagnostic intervention. transdiagnostic interventions emerged against single-diagnosis treatments. The review of previous studies did not find any specific research that investigated the effectiveness of Barlow's transdiagnostic therapy model on the emotional well-being of adolescents with nomophobia. Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Barlow's transdiagnostic treatment on the emotional well-being of 14-18-year-old adolescents with nomophobia. Method: The method of the current research was a semi-experimental pre-test-post-test type with a control group and a two-month follow-up. The statistical population of the research included all adolescent girls in the city of Isfahan in the age range of 14 to 18 years. The sampling method was available and the statistical sample included 30 people. In this way, 30 adolescent girls who were suffering from nomophobia and had low emotional well-being were randomly selected, were randomly assigned to be Experimental and control in two groups. The experimental group received Barlow et al (2011) metadiagnostic therapy in the form of 12 90-minute sessions, but the control group members did not receive any intervention. The research tools included nomophobia questionnaire (Azadmanesh et al., 2016) and researcher-made emotional well-being questionnaire (2023). The data was analyzed using the method of variance analysis with repeated measurements and SPSS-29 software. Results: The results of analysis of variance with repeated measurements in the present study showed that Barlow's transdiagnostic treatment was effective on the emotional well-being of adolescent girls with nomophobia (P<0.001). Conclusion: Considering the effectiveness of Barlow's meta-diagnostic treatment program on the emotional well-being of adolescents with nomophobia in the present study, it seems If this therapy protocol is used on adolescents who have strong and intense negative or positive emotion levels, they can experience emotional experiences with less distress.
