Comparison the Effect of Transactional Analysis with Emotion Regulation Strategies on Irrational Beliefs and Decision-Making Styles in Female Adolescents

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of transactional analysis and emotion regulation interventions and to explain the differences between these two method on irrational beliefs and decision-making styles of female adolescent.

In this research a qausi-experimental method was used with pre-test and post-test design with control group. The sample of this study consisted of 34 female students from 2nd to 3rd grade who were studying in high schools in Fardis during academic year of 2016-2017. They were selected through convenience sampling and randomly assigned to three groups. The research instruments were Scott & Bruce’s general decision making styles questionnaire (1995) and Jones’ irrational beliefs scale (1969). Transactional analysis was trained based on Jones and Stewart (1987) training package and Gross (2015) model was used for emotion regulation intervention.

The results showed that both approach, i.e. transactional analysis and emotion regulation were effective on adolescent irrational beliefs and decision making styles improvement (P<0.01). However, there was no significant difference in effectiveness of the two interventions on those variables.

The results showed that transactional analysis and emotion regulation can be effective on reducing irrational beliefs and dependent and avoidant decision making style. Also increase the rational decision making style in adolescents.