The Effectiveness of Emotional Oriented Training on the Death Anxiety, Metacognitive Beliefs, Self-harm Behaviors of Girls with Early Maladaptive Schemas from Cultural Perspective

Subject Areas : Psychology

Asie Peiravi ¹ , Zahra Naderi Malek ^{2 *} , Marieh Dehghanmanshadi ³

1 - M. A., Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran
2 - Ph.D. Student, Department of Social Work, Faculty of Social sciences, University of Allameh TabatabaiI, Tehran, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Humanities, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

Received: 2025-01-09 Accepted : 2025-03-01 Published : 2025-03-19

Keywords: Emotional oriented training, Death anxiety, Metacognitive beliefs, Self-harm behaviors, Early maladaptive schemas from cultural perspective,

Abstract :

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of emotional oriented training on the death anxiety, metacognitive beliefs, self-harm behaviors  of girls from cultural perspective. The statistical population embraced all the 15-25 years old girls with early maladaptive schemas in Mehriz city on 2022. The sample encompassed thirty girls with early maladaptive schemas who were selected through purposive sampling procedure and randomly assigned in two experimental and control groups 15 subjects each. The current study was a quasi-experimental type with pre-test, post-test and control group. To collect data Young & Brown Schema Questionnaire (YSQ, 2005), Templer Death Anxiety Scale (1970), Wells and Cartwright-Hatton Metacognitive Questionnaire(MCQ,2004) and Sanson Self-Harm Inventory (1998) were implemented. The experimental group received 9 sessions of emotional oriented group training, while the control group received none. The results of multi variate analysis of covariance showed that emotional oriented training was effective on death anxiety, metacognitive beliefs and, self-harm behaviors. The emotional oriented training from cultural perspective assisted the girls with early maladaptive schema to manage their emotions and to reduce their self-harm behaviors.  

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