The effect of monotheistical integrated psychotherapy on the compatibility and aggression of male residents in prison

Managing anger and increasing adaptation among inmates in prison is paramount importance in socializing prisoners. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of Monotheistical Integrated psychotherapy on the level of compatibility and aggression of male residents in prison.

The study method was a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest associated with control group). The statistical population of the study consisted of 80 prisoners aged 20-40 years old who were imprisoned in Lahijan City due to violence. The subjects were randomly divided into experimental and control groups (40 each). The experimental group underwent Monotheistical Integrated psychotherapy, while the control group did not receive such intervention. The tools used to collect the research information were Aggression Questionnaire (ZahediFar,1999) and Bell Adjustment Inventory (Bell,1961).

The results of one-way covariance analysis (ANCOVA) showed that Monotheistical Integrated psychotherapy is effective on the scores of dependent variables. In other words, after the intervention in prisoners, post-test scores increased for compatibility (F1,77 = 39.282, P<0.0001), and the Aggression scores decreased (F1,77= 194.608, P<0.0001). The results of this study indicate the importance of the Monotheistical Integrated psychotherapy on the level of compatibility and aggression among prisoners. Therefore, according to these findings we can observe the decrease of negative indicators such as conflict, self-mutilation, aggression and increase of positive indicators such as (relaxation, cooperation, compatibility) with the implementation of this project in prisons and at the wider level.