The Effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Therapy on Anxiety, Life Satisfaction, Emotional Self-Regulation and Diabetes Management Self Efficacy in Women with Type 2 Diabetes

Bigdeli, Roja; Chinaveh, Mahboubeh; Jafari, Davod

doi:10.22059/japr.2025.365764.644736

The Effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Therapy on Anxiety, Life Satisfaction, Emotional Self-Regulation and Diabetes Management Self Efficacy in Women with Type 2 Diabetes

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Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Roja Bigdeli ¹

Mahboubeh Chinaveh ²

Davod Jafari ³

¹ Department of Psychology, Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran

² Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Pishtazan Higher Education Instiute Shiraz, Shiraz Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Malayer Branch, Islamic Azad University, Malayer, Iran.

10.22059/japr.2025.365764.644736

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy on anxiety, life satisfaction, emotional self-regulation and diabetes management self efficacy in women with type 2 diabetes. This semi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group and follow-up 2 month. In this research, the statistical population was all women with type 2 diabetes in Tehran city in year 2022., With using convenience sampling method, 50 people were selected and then randomly divided into 2 groups (each group 25 people) were replaced and experimental group underwent emotion-focused therapy (8 sessions 90 minutes), but the control group received no training and remained in the waiting list. To collect data Beck anxiety inventory (BAI), satisfaction with life scale (SWLS), emotion regulation questionnaire (ERQ) and diabetes management self-efficacy scale (DMSES). Analysis of variance with repeated measures with SPSS software version 28 was used for data analysis. The results showed that both intervention had a significant effect on anxiety, life satisfaction, emotional self-regulation and diabetes management self efficacy in women with type 2 diabetes (P<0.05).

Keywords

Anxiety

Emotional Self-Regulation

Emotion-Focused Therapy

Life Satisfaction

Self Efficacy