The effectiveness of psychodrama with transactionalanalysiscontent on emotion regulation and social-adaptive functions in femaleadolescent with bad parenting

The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of psychodrama with transactional analysis content on emotion regulation strategies and peer relationship in female adolescents with bad parenting in Isfahan.
The study was applieda quasi-experimental designby experimental and control group and pre-test, post-test and follow-up paradigm. Statistical population was allfemaleadolescents with bad parenting in Isfahan city in the 2015. A total sample of 22 girls were selected with an accessible sampling in the boarding house and then assigned randomly in experimental and control group. Emotion Regulation Difficulties Scale & Social-adaptive Functions Scales were administeredfor data collection. Data were then evaluated with a MANCOVA statistical analysis.
Results were shown that psychodrama with transactional analysis content significantly decreased difficulties of emotion regulation strategies and improved peers relationship in post-test and follow-up in experimental group.
It could be concluded that psychodrama with transactional analysis contentcould positively affect emotion regulation processes in the female adolescent with bad parenting and may help adolescentsto use more efficient emotion regulation strategies which improves peer relationships.