The effectiveness of metacognitive therapy on intolerance of ambiguity in students with obsessive compulsive symptoms

Subject Areas : Woman and family

Ahad Ahangar ¹ , Fatima Asadi ² , Sahinah Health ³

1 - *Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Asbestos Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran
2 - MA, Department of Counseling, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, , Shabestar, Iran
3 - MA, Department of Educational Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tabriz, Iran

Received: 2020-05-14 Accepted : 2020-05-31 Published : 2020-05-21

Keywords: Students, intolerance of ambiguity, obsessive compulsive symptoms, metacognitive therapy,

Abstract :

  The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of  metacognitive therapy on intolerance of ambiguity in students with obsessive compulsive symptoms. The present study is a semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest and control group design. The statistical population of the present study consisted of all female students ( 4558)  studying at high secondary schools in Khoy city From this population, a sample of 30 people with OCD diagnosis using yale-brown obsessive compulsive scale (Y-BOCS) was selected by available sampling method and were placed randomly in two groups of experimental (15 people) and control (15 people). Participants of the two groups completed the pre-test and post-test stages of intolerance of uncertainty (questionnaire), and in the meantime, the subjects of the experimental group were placed under the training of metacognitive therapy during 10 sessions of 90 minutes. Data analysis was performed using Multivariate covariance. The findings of this study showed that metacognitive therapy resulted in a significant difference between the groups in the total intolerance of ambiguity score and its components including inability to act, stressful and upsetting results of uncertainty, negative results of unexpected events and ambiguity about future Regarding the results, it can be argued that metacognitive therapy is effective on the intolerance of ambiguity and its components.    

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