Investigating the Effect of Metacognitive Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Anxiety and Depression of Single Middle-Aged Men

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy and cognitive therapy on reducing depression and anxiety in single middle-aged men. This research is a field experiment. This plan is pre-test and post-test with control group. First, a number of unmarried middle-aged men, members of private associations, filled depression and anxiety questionnaires, and among them, 50 people with the highest levels of depression and anxiety were selected and randomly replaced in two groups. One group of unmarried middle-aged men were exposed to the experimental intervention and one group was considered as the control group. In general, based on the findings of the research, cognitive behavioral therapy group by improving symptoms and negative psychological reactions such as depression, feeling of loss, and loneliness can lead to an increase in men's hope, finding meaning in loss, reducing death, anxiety, and improving their attitude towards the future and yourself.