Comparing the Effectiveness of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Metacognitive Therapy on Cognitive Emotional Regulation Strategies in Adolescents

Entering adolescence is one of the most important periods of transition in life. At this stage, leaving the safe and familiar environment of the home and facing academic challenges, the teenager faces significant tensions, which is one of the most important challenges in the field of emotion and emotional discipline, so this research aims to compare the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy and metacognition. Treatment was performed on cognitive strategies of emotional regulation in teenagers.Research

The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and follow-up with a control group. The research population included all adolescent girls aged 13 to 16 years in district 1 of Baharestan city who studied in the seventh to tenth grades in the academic year of 1402-1401, who were referred to the education counseling center in 1401, and out of these, 3 The group of 20 people was randomly divided into two experimental groups and a control group (which in the research process were reduced to dialectical behavior therapy (17 people), metacognitive therapy (18 people) and control group (20 people) by random sampling method. ) and responded to the questionnaire of cognitive regulation strategies of emotion, Garnevsky, Kraich and Spinhaven in three times: pre-test, post-test and follow-up. The subjects of the experimental group were trained in dialectical behavior therapy and metacognitive therapy in a group (in the form of training and skills), for 2 months, 1 session of 90 minutes per week, but during this time, no training was given to the control group. The data was statistically analyzed with SPSS software and using the analysis of variance test with repeated measurements and a significance level of p < 0.05.

The results showed that the effect of metacognitive therapy on the cognitive strategies of emotional regulation is significant (P=0.019). So that metacognitive therapy has significantly increased cognitive strategies in adolescents compared to dialectical behavior therapy.

According to the results of this research, it can be said that the goal of dialectical behavior therapy and metacognitive therapy is to increase behaviors that probably lead to emotional regulation in adolescents, which is the reward.