The evaluation of the effectiveness of short-term psychotherapy based on religious-oriented self-control education on the management of alexithymia and aggression in high school students in Shabestar city

Aggression and Alexithymia are both the most serious and worrying behaviors in adolescence.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of short-term psychotherapy based on religious-oriented self-control education on the control of alexithymia and aggression in high school male students in Shabastar city.

The present study is a semi-experimental, pre-test, post-test with control group and experimental group. The statistical population of this study includes all students of high schools in Shabestar city. Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire (AQ-29/4) and Farsi Toronto Alexithymia Scale Questionnaire (FTAS-20) were administered to some of the students through available sampling method. After identifying students with high emotional aggression and agility, 24 were selected and 12 subjects were assigned randomly in the experimental group and 12 others in the control group. The experimental group was subjected to short-term psychotherapy based on religious orientation self-management for 10 sessions. Then, the two groups were subjected to post-test.

Data were analyzed using MANOVA and COVARIANCE analysis and the results of this study showed that short-term psychotherapy based on religious-oriented self-control education on inhibiting aggression and Alexithymia of high school students in Shabestar was effective. As a result, it can be concluded: that short-term psychotherapy based on self-control education with religious orientation inhibits students' aggression and emotional disturbances.