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https://doi.org/10.24869/psihei.2024.17
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MOTIVATIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY ON UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ ANXIETY SENSITIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Zahra Syadabadi
; Department of psychology, Qaenat Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qaenat, Iran
Mahsa Mohemi
; Department of Educational Management, Electronic Campus, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Mohammad Tahan
; Department of Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Sažetak
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of motivational psychotherapy
on students’ anxiety sensitivity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method: The method of this study was pretest-posttest experiment with a control group. The
statistical population of the study included all the students of the Islamic Azad University
of Qaenat in 2022. From this statistical population, 265 people were selected as a sample
based on Cochran’s formula and by means of the voluntary sampling method. They filled out
the anxiety sensitivity questionnaire (pretest) and then, among those who met the criteria
for entering the study, 40 people were selected as a sample by random sampling, and were
randomly divided into two groups – experimental group and control group (each group consisting
of 20 people). The experimental group underwent motivational psychotherapy for 8
sessions (Sahebdel and Tahan, 2022) and the control group did not receive any intervention.
At the end, both groups answered the research tools again (posttest). Multivariate covariance
analysis was used to analyze the data.
Findings: The results showed that there is a significant difference between the experimental
and control groups in terms of anxiety sensitivity in the pretest and posttest (p<0.05).
Therefore, motivational psychotherapy has reduced students’ anxiety sensitivity during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Ključne riječi
motivational psychotherapy; anxiety sensitivity; student; COVID-19 pandemic
Hrčak ID:
328681
URI
Datum izdavanja:
18.12.2024.
Posjeta: 363 *