Effectiveness of Transactional Analysis Group Therapy on Identity Styles and Self-efficacy of Female Students in the Second District of Tehran during the Academic Year of 2018-2019

A systemic personality theory and social dynamics are given in the Transactional Analysis for behavior. The objective of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Transactional Analysis on self-efficacy and identity styles of Iranian female students.

The present research was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design with a control group. The study population included all the second year of high school female students (458) in the second district of Tehran, Iran, during the academic year 2018-19. Out of them, 30 individuals were selected using purposeful sampling method. For data collection, the self-efficacy scale and identity styles questionnaire were employed. They were then assigned randomly to the two control (n=15) and experimental (n=15) groups. The experimental group received Transactional Analysis training for 10 treatment sessions (90 minutes for each session). The data were analyzed with analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) in SPSS version 23.

Mean and SD of age in the Transactional Analysis and the control groups were 16.87 ±0.834 and 17±0.926, respectively. Moreover, our findings showed that Transactional Analysis training had a significant effect on the experimental group in identity styles and self-efficacy scores (academic, social, and emotional) (P=0.001).

The result of our study showed that group psychotherapy with Transactional Analysis approach had significant effects on identity style and self-efficacy. For the assessment of organizations and their management, evaluating child growth, managing psychiatric problems at educational facilities and for social workers, Transactional Analysis were found to be useful.