Comparison of the effectiveness of existential, cognitive-existential, and humanistic-existential group psychotherapy on behavioral self-regulation for effective relationships in women

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1 Ph.D. Student Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

Abstract

In most of the existential philosophy texts, interpersonal and close relationships have been studied. Therefore, to the enhancement, interpersonal relationships testing psychotherapies elicited from such a philosophy is quite significant. However, which method is the most effective on this ground? The purpose of this research is to study the comparison of the effectiveness of existential, cognitive-existential, and humanistic-existential group psychotherapy on behavioral self-regulation for effective relationships among type II diabetes and obesity in women. The method of the research was experimental and its experimental design includes the pretest, post-test, and two-month follow-up test with experimental and control parallel groups. Cases of this study included women with co-morbidity type II diabetes and obesity referring to the Specialist Diabetes Clinic of Tohid Hospital in Sanandaj in the first three months of 2019. After screening the level of behavioral self-regulation for effective relationships, 32 subjects were selected by simple random sampling method from this society and were assigned to three experimental and one control group by substitutive random method. The data were collected based on the scale of behavioral self-regulation for effective relationships Wilson, Charker, Lizzio, Halford & Kimlin (2005). After the pre-test, Subjects of the existential group participated in 90-minute sessions for 9 weeks, and subjects of the cognitive-existential and humanistic-existent groups separately participated in 120-minute sessions for 9 weeks. Data were analyzed by the statistical test of repeated measures of the General Linear Model and the SPSS software.  The results of repeated measures analysis showed that the effect of the cognitive-existential intervention on relationship self-change behaviors was significant and stable compared to the control group (P-value = 0.001). Cognitive-existential intervention can significantly and consistently enhance relationships' self-change behaviors in women with co-morbidity type II diabetes and obesity.  The findings indicate the benefit of applying a cognitive-existential method to counseling and psychotherapy, but there are some ambiguities to be addressed in this article.

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  • Receive Date: 31 December 2019
  • Revise Date: 08 February 2020
  • Accept Date: 13 February 2020

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