The Effectiveness of Emotion Focused Therapy on Rumination and Inferiority Feeling in Adolescent Girls with Self-Harming Behaviors

NazemAkroaya, Fatemeh; Sharifi, Tayyebeh; Ghasemi Pirbaloti, Mohammad

doi:10.22038/mjms.2025.90562.5092

The Effectiveness of Emotion Focused Therapy on Rumination and Inferiority Feeling in Adolescent Girls with Self-Harming Behaviors

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Fatemeh NazemAkroaya ¹

Tayyebeh Sharifi ²

Mohammad Ghasemi Pirbaloti ³

¹ PhD Student, Department of Psycholog, Shk.C., Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran

² Professor, Department of Psychology, Shk.C, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran(Corresponding Author)

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Shk.C., Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran

10.22038/mjms.2025.90562.5092

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of emotion focused therapy on rumination and inferiority feeling in adolescent girls with self-harming behaviors. The current study was a experimental application with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a two-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the present study consisted of adolescent girls with self-harming behaviors who referred to education counseling centers in Isfahan in the academic year 2024-2025. In this research, 36 adolescent girls with self-harming behaviors were selected by purposeful sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (19 adolescent in the experimental group and 17 adolescent in the control group). The adolescent in the experimental group received the emotion focused therapy during ten weeks in ten 90-minute sessions. Self-Harm Behaviors Questionnaire (SHBQ), Rumination Questionnaire (RQ) and Inferiority Feeling Questionnaire (IFQ) were used in the present study. The data were analyzed through mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 software. The results showed that emotion focused therapy has significant effect on the rumination (p

Keywords

Adolescent Girls

Emotion Focused Therapy

Inferiority Feeling

Self-Harming Behaviors

Rumination

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