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The effectiveness of teaching positive psychology on dysfunctional attitudes and emotional self-regulation of withdrawing addicts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

S. Ghahari ,
Z. Farhanghi  and
B. Gheytarani
S. Ghahari
Affiliation:
Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Center of Excellence in psychiatry, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health, Department of Mental Health, Tehran, Iran Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Addiction Institute, Department of Psychiatry, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
Z. Farhanghi
Affiliation:
Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon, Tonekabon, Iran Clinical Psychology, Tehran, Iran
B. Gheytarani
Affiliation:
Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon, Tonekabon, Iran Clinical Psychology, Uromia, Iran

Abstract

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Objective

Negative attitudes and the inability of emotion regulation can make individuals vulnerable against addiction. In this field, the main objective of this study is to investigate effectiveness of teaching positive psychology on dysfunctional attitudes and emotional self-regulation of withdrawing addicts.

Methods

This study is conducted using semi-empirical method in form of pretest posttest. Statistical population consists of all addicted people referred to Addiction Treatment Camps of Karaj by 2015. Among these camps, Vardavard Camp is selected randomly and among the referees, 30 people of those who were qualified to participate in this study and were satisfied for this action were selected and were placed in two experimental and control groups. Experimental group received positive psychology intervention and control group was in waiting list. Both groups fulfilled dysfunctional attitude scale and emotional self-regulation scale in baseline and after treatment. Obtained data have been analyzed using independent t-test and covariance in SPSS-22.

Finding

There is significant difference between two groups at the end of intervention in terms of dysfunctional attitudes and emotional self-regulation (P < 0.05).

Conclusion

Teaching positive psychology can lead to change in dysfunctional attitudes and emotional self-regulation of addicted people.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Keywords

Positive psychologyDysfunctional attitudesEmotional self-regulationAddiction
Type
e-Poster viewing: anxiety disorders and somatoform disorders
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S410
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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