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Raana Pashmkar, Bita Bahrami, Masoud Karimloo,
Volume 0, Issue 0 (3-2020)
Volume 0, Issue 0 (3-2020)
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Background & Objectives : All people need skills to prevent mental disorders such as depression as well as increase and improve their mental health. Regulation of emotions through cognition is one of the basic necessities of every person's life, which helps him to regulate his emotions or feelings in the face of a threatening and stressful event. A person's beliefs that he can express his emotions at appropriate times or control them, or that he has the ability to manage his positive and negative emotions is called self-efficacy in emotional regulation. Therefore, a person's thoughts and cognition play a very important role in the ability to manage. Regulation and control of feelings and emotions after experiencing a stressful event.On the other side Communication skills play an important role in improving a person's cognitive, emotional and practical abilities to interact with others and achieve success and happiness in life. Human capabilities grow in the shadow of interpersonal relationships, and the result is poor communication, family, educational, occupational problems, low self-efficacy, and worsening of depression symptoms. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of communication skills training on cognitive regulation of emotion and self-efficacy in people with Mild-depression.
Method: The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest with a control group. The statistical population included people with mild depression in Tehran in 2020. From the above population, 20 people werw selectedby the available sampling method and randomly assigned to the experimental(10 people) and control (10 people)groups.. The intervention (communication skills training) which was conducted in accordance with the World Health Organization's educational guidelines The expermintal group underwent Communication Skills Training for 8 sessions of ninety minutes and two sessions per week and the control group received no intervention.
Measuring instruments In this research, Beck's depression test was used as one of the most suitable measuring criteria that can reflect the depressive states in people in order to identify people with mild depression. Meta-analyses reported the correlation coefficient between clinical assessment of depression and BDI as 0.72 for psychiatric patients and 0.60 for healthy people were Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) developed by Garnefski to evaluate the way of thinking after experiencing life-threatening events. The validity of the scale has been calculated through Cronbach's alpha for positive strategies 0.91, negative strategies 0.87 and the whole questionnaire 0.93.
- The self-efficacy questionnaire (GSE) of this scale has a maximum score of 85 and a minimum score of 17, with higher scores indicating stronger self-efficacy. The reliability coefficient through Cronbach's alpha for general self-efficacy was 0.86.
Data analysis was done using descriptive (mean,standard deviation) and inferential statistics (analysis of covariance) in SPSS version 16. The significance level of statistical tests was set at 0.05.
Results : The results indicated that communication skills training is significantly effective in increasing emotionally cognitively adapted strategies, reducing maladaptive cognitive-emotional strategies and increasing the self-efficacy on individuals with mild depression. The Effectiveness of communication skills training intervention on people suffering from depression who were in the experimental group, in the order of priority for rumination strategies (P=0.002) 45%, blaming others (P=0.002) 43%, catastrophizing Making (P=0.020) 28% and self-blame (P=0.032) decreased by 24%, respectively, preference for replanning strategies (P=0.004) 40%, compromise re-evaluation (P=0.012) P=0) 32%, renewed attention (P=0.029) 29%, event acceptance (P=0.026) 26% and perspective taking (P=0.025) 25% increased. Also, in the self-efficacy, the difference between the averages in the test and control groups in the post-test after removing the effect of the pre-test was statistically significant (P<0.001). The Effectiveness of communication skills training intervention on the variable of self-efficacy in people with mild depression who were trained in the experimental group, approximately 41% increased in self-efficacy compared to the control group who were not trained.
Conclusion: Considering the importance of communication skills training for all people and its obvious effect in controlling adaptive and maladaptive cognitive emotion strategies and self-efficacy on individuals, communication skills training was necessary.
Key words : Self-Efficacy, Cognitive Emotion Regulation, communication skills training, Depression.
Mozhgan Rezazadeh Kaveri, Mojtaba Ansari Shahidi, Hamid Yaghubi, Hasan Khoshakhlagh,
Volume 0, Issue 0 (3-2020)
Volume 0, Issue 0 (3-2020)
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Background & Objectives: Paying attention to the psychological health of employees can be one of the main goals of mental health professionals. In this regard, most of the employees have different job duties, long working hours, high volume and workload, lack of job security, high noise in the work environment, occupational hazards and the possibility of injury in the work environment, communication with subordinates and superiors. They face in the work environment and various job encounters at the workplace; Therefore, it is likely that they experience psychological problems as well, which leads to an increase in psychological distress and a decrease in interpersonal emotion regulation in these people. Accordingly, it is very important to use effective interventions to improve anxiety tolerance and interpersonal emotional regulation; so, the aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of communication skills training on Distress tolerance and interpersonal emotional regulation of employees of the Ministry of Ministry of Cooperation, Labor and Social Welfare.
Methods: This study was semi–experimental and was conducted with a pre–test–post–test design with two control and experimental groups. The statistical population of this research included all Ministry of Cooperation, Labor and Social Welfare. Among the statistical population, 30 qualified volunteers were available entered into the study and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (each group includes 15 people). The criteria for entering participants to the research include: being in the age range of 25 to 60 years, Not having a psychiatric illness, not participating in other treatment programs at the same time, informed consent to participate in research and education of at least a diploma. Exclusion criteria were absenteeism more than out of three sessions and non–observance of group therapy rules. In this research, ethical standards including obtaining informed consent and guaranteeing privacy and confidentiality were observed. Also, at the time of participating in the research, the participants were free to withdraw from the research at any time and provide personal information. They were assured that the information would remain confidential and this was also fully respected also, after the end of the research, communication skills training was implemented for the people in the control group. Both groups completed the Distress Tolerance Scale (Simons & Gaher, 2005) and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Hofmann, 2014). The communication skills training program was implemented in the experimental group as a 10 session’s 90–minute and every session twice a week, but the control group did not receive any treatment plan. Data analysis was carried out in two parts: descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. At the level of descriptive statistics of frequency, mean, and standard deviation and inferential statistics, analysis of covariance was used. Data analysis was done in SPSS software version 27, and the significance level of the tests was considered to be 0.05.
Result: The results showed that there was a significant difference in the variables of the Distress tolerance (tolerance, absorb, evaluation and regulation) (p<0.001) and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation (enhancing positive affect, soothing, and social modeling) (p<0.001) between the experimental and control groups in the post–test, after removing the effect of the pre–test; Also, positive psychology training was able to increase tolerance by 66%, absorb by 57%, evaluation by 63%, and hate and regulation by 49% in components of distress tolerance. Also, positive psychology training increased the enhancing positive affect by 52%, soothing by 50%, and social modeling by 44% in components of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation.
Conclusion: This research showed that teaching the communication skills training program to Ministry of Ministry of Cooperation, Labor and Social Welfare is suitable for improving the Distress tolerance and increasing the Interpersonal Emotion Regulation.
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