Effectiveness of cognitive therapy on rumination, emotion regulation and social problem solving in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Subject Areas : social psychology

Gholamreza Sanagouye Moharer ¹ , Zahra Karami Mohajeri ² , Roya Mohammadi ³ , Fatemeh Maghsoodloo ⁴

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Educational Sciences and Psychology College, Sistan and Baluchestan University, Zahedan, Iran
2 - PhD students, Department of Psychology, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran
3 - PhD students, Department of Psychology, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran
4 - PhD students, Department of Psychology, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran

Received: 2018-04-06 Accepted : 2019-04-08 Published : 2019-05-22

Keywords: cognitive therapy, obsessive-compulsive disorder, social problem solving, emotion regulation, rumination,

Abstract :

The aimed this research was effectiveness of cognitive therapy on rumination, emotion regulation and social problem solving in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. This study was a semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with an experimental and control groups. Research population was patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder referring to the psychological services clinics of Tehran city in the summer season of 2017 year. Sample research was 30 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder with moderate intensity that selected by available sampling method and randomly assigned to two equal groups. The experimental group received 8 sessions of 2 hours cognitive therapy and the control group didn’t receive any training. Research instruments were the questionnaires of rumination (Nolen-Hoeksema & Marrow, 1991), emotion regulation (Gratz & Roemer, 2004) and social problem solving (D’Zurilla & et al, 2002). Data collected analyzed by MANCOVA method. The findings showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in the three variables of rumination, emotion regulation and social problem solving. In the other words, cognitive therapy led to decrease the rumination and increase the emotion regulation and social problem solving in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (P<0/001). Based on the results, it is suggested that used from cognitive therapy for the promotion of health (decrease the rumination and increase the emotional regulation and social problem solving) in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.