Effectiveness of Training Self-Differentiation on the Attachment Quality and Alexitimia in the Adolescents Engaged In Divorce with Externalized Behavior

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• sahar bayati eshkaftaki ¹
• REZA AHMADI ²
• Maryam Chorami ³
• ahmad ghazanfari ³

¹ Ph.D. Student in General Psychology, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran.

² Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran.

³ Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran.

10.30495/jpmm.2022.28465.3450

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of training self-differentiation on the attachment quality and alexitimia in the adolescents engaged in divorce with externalized behavior. It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, control group and two-month follow-up design. The statistical population of the present study included the students engaged in divorce with externalized behaviors who were studying in the first and second year high schools in academic year 2019-20 in the city of Shahrekord. 40 adolescents were selected through purposive sampling mehtod and they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (20 adolescents in the experimental group and 20 adolescents in the control group). The experimental group received ten ninety-minute intervention sessions of training self-differentiation (Kazemian and Esmaeili, 2012) during two-and-a-half months. After starting the intervention, 4 adolescents from the experimental and 3 from the control group quitted receiving the intervention. The applied questionnaires in this study included children and adolescents behavioral inventory (Achenbach, Rescorla, 2001), attachment quality questionnaire (Armsden, Greenberg, 1987) and Alexitimia questionnaire (Bagby, Parker, Taylor, 1994). the resutls showed that training self-differentiation has significant effect on the attachment quality and alexitimia in the adolescents engaged in divorce with externalized behaviors. The findings of the present study revealed that training self-differentiation can be used as an efficient method to decrease attachment quality and alexitimia in the adolescents engaged in divorce wiht externalized divorce through employing techniques such as differentiating rational from irrational beliefs, equipping the members with special communicative skills and shouldering the responsibility.

Keywords

• Externalized behaivor disorder
• training self-differentiation
• attachment quality
• divorce
• Alexitimia

20.1001.1.22285516.1401.13.47.4.4

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