yahya araghi; saeideh bazzazian; mojtaba amirimajd; mohammad ghamari
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The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of metacognitive education group and acceptance and commitment therapy on hopelessness of divorcing demanding couples. The research design was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest- follow-up with the control group. The statistical population ...
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The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of metacognitive education group and acceptance and commitment therapy on hopelessness of divorcing demanding couples. The research design was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest- follow-up with the control group. The statistical population included divorcing demanding couples who referred from the Family Court and Social Emergency Intervention Center to Psychological Services center in Marand 36 couples a total of 72 who scored higher than the cut-off point on the Beck hopelessness scale were selected by purposive sampling and randomly divided into two experimental and a control group (12 couples for each group). The research instrument was the Beck Hopelessness Inventory (BHI).and were analyzed using a mixed design. Results showed that both acceptance and commitment therapy and metacognitive therapy significantly reduced hopelessness of divorcing demanding couples (P≤0.01). Also, the comparison of the effectiveness of the two interventions showed that there was significant difference between the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy and metacognitive therapy on hopelessness of participants, and meta-cognitive therapy was more effective than acceptance and commitment therapy (P≤0.05). It can be concluded that meta-cognitive therapy (MCT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can reduce the clients' hopelessness.
khaled aslani; abbas amanollahi; pari valad momen; manoochehr taghipoor
Volume 5, Issue 20 , January 2015, , Pages 59-79
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the simple and moderator relationship of hopelessness and family function with suicidal ideation among high school students in Ahwaz city. The population included all of the high school students, and participants were 179 boys and 181 girls selected by multistage ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the simple and moderator relationship of hopelessness and family function with suicidal ideation among high school students in Ahwaz city. The population included all of the high school students, and participants were 179 boys and 181 girls selected by multistage cluster random sampling from high schools in Ahwaz City. Participants completed measures of hopelessness, family function and suicidal ideation and model evaluation by SPSS/16. The results showed that there are a significant negative correlation between hopelessness and family function, between family function and suicidal ideation and there are a significant positive correlation between hopelessness and suicidal ideation. In addition, there is a positive and significant relationship between hopelessness and suicidal ideation with moderator family function, butthere is no significant relationship between hopelessness and suicidal ideation with moderator family function in female students.
