Effectiveness of compassion focused therapy on negative affect and self-blame in female students who were suffering from emotional breakdown

Love is one of the most amazing emotions a person can experience, but at the same time, it can be one of the most painful emotions. Breaking up the romantic relationships has been accompanied with different negative physical and psychological responses such as depression, anxiety psychopathology, loneliness and self-blame . Current research has been done by the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness of compassion focused therapy on negative affect and self-blame in female students who were suffering from emotional breakdown.

Methods and Materials: 

Current study is a sort of semi-experimental research with pre-test and post-test So, among the female students suffering from emotional breakdown in Zahedan university of medical science (2017-2018), a sample of 40 students were selected and randomly arranged into experimental and control groups (n=20). All the subjects have completed the negative affect questionnaire in the pre-test stage. Then experimental group has been educating the compassion focused therapy for 8 sessions(each session lasted for 90 minutes), whereas the control group hasnchr t been receiving any intervention. In the end, both groups were evaluated and assessed again. The data were analyzed by Covariance analysis test (ancova).

The results of covariance analysis showed that compassion-focused therapy intervention reduced the scores of negative affect and self-blame in the experimental group compared to the control group .
 (P≤0/01).

According to the results of the research compassion focused therapy could be utilized to decrease the negative affect and self-blame in female students suffering from emotional breakdown and its use is justified on the Iranian population.