Introduction
Aggression usually refers to behavior that aims to physically or verbally harm another person or destroy people's property, which affects the quality of life of patients. Emotional therapy can play an effective role in improving psychological symptoms; Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of emotional therapy on quality of life and ego strength.
Material and Method
This study was a semi-experimental method with a pre-test, post-test and two-month follow-up plan with a control group. The target population of all the referents had aggressive teenagers who referred to the psychological clinic of Tehran in 1402. The sample size was determined by referring to Cohen's table. In this way, at the confidence level of 95%, the effect size was 0.30 and the statistical power was 0.83 for each group of 12 people. However, since there was a possibility of some samples falling and also in order to generalize the results more, the sample size was determined to be 15 people in each group. In the first step, 30 people were selected by available sampling method, and in the second step, these 30 people were replaced in the experimental group (15 people) and a control group (15 people) in a simple random way (by lottery).
Results
The results of the study indicated the effect of the emotion-oriented method on the dimensions of quality of life and ego strength (P<0.001).
Conclusion
According to the results, specialists working in the field of adolescents and families can consider the use of emotion-oriented methods in the treatment of these people along with other treatments.