This study was undertaken to predict unhealthy eating behaviors and attitudes based on concerns about body deformity, difficulty in emotion regulation, and dysfunctional reactions in adolescent girls. The present study had a descriptive, correlational design. The statistical population included all adolescent girls aged between 14 and 20 in Kermanshah in 2018 from among whom 150 individuals wer...

Background: Today, cardiovascular disease is considered as one of the most common serious illnesses in developing countries. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral stress management training on the reduction of the dysfunctional attitudes and stress in adolescent with coronary heart disease. Methods: This study was single-subject experimental desi...

Background and objectives: Nowadays, it is noteworthy to consider the nature of lovemaking as an important issue in social psychology and individual personality assessment. Therefore, this study was done aiming to compare the social anxiety, dysfunctional attitudes and body image in three groups of lovemaking in the real world, lovemaking in the virtual world and without lovemaking. Me...

Familiarity with the process of self-care training and sexual education can make sexual education instructing volunteers stressful and create incorrect attitudes for them. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of Self-care training on dysfunctional attitudes in Volunteer women of instructing children’s sexual education. The research was a quasi-experimental study and...

Objectives: This research was conducted with the aim of explaining the dysfunctional attitudes of hospitalized cardiovascular patients through dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs. Methods & Materials: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Shariati Hospital in Isfahan, Iran, in 2012. The statistical population was the hospitalized cardiovascular patients of Shariati Hospital in ...

Objectives: Addiction researchers find that addictive processes are influenced by patient beliefs and attitudes. This research was carried out to assess the role of dysfunctional attitudes, outcomes of psychology in substance abuse behaviors of subject were referred to addiction treatment center in the city of Bandar Abbas, and to compare the with the control group. Methods: This is a ...

Background & Aim: Despite the growing statistics of people with HIV-positive in Iran, little attention has been paid to the poor quality of their life and the adverse psychological status of these patients. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of group Hope Therapy on the improvement of Dysfunctional Attitudes and the increase of hope in HIV positive patients. Methods: the researc...

Introduction: Epilepsy is a brain disorder that has neurobiological, cognitive, psychological, and social consequences for affected patients. The purpose of this research was to determine the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy(CBT) on modification of dysfunctional attitudes in patients with epilepsy. Methods: In the study, 20 epileptic patients were randomly assigned to two experimental...