Comparing the effectiveness of Schema Therapy and interpersonal skills training on reducing inefficient attitudes of adolescent girls

This research was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of Schema Therapy and interpersonal skills training on reducing inefficient attitudes and also comparing the effectiveness of these two methods on reducing inefficient attitudes. This quasi-experimental research was conducted based on pre-test and post-test plan with control group. The statistical population consisted of 200 adolescent girls who referred to the consulting office in Qouchan in the first half of 2018. The Inefficient Attitudes Scale (DAS-26) was implemented for all members of the statistical population and 60 subjects whose inefficient attitudes were higher were selected and were organized based on a random number table in the form of two experimental groups and one control group (each one in 20 people). The data collection tool was an inefficient attitudes scale. Data collection was done in 50 days in the second half of 2018. One-way covariance statistical analysis method was used in statistical analysis of the research data. The findings indicate that the observed difference between the two experimental groups of schema therapy (with a mean of 65.65) and the experimental group of interpersonal skills training (with a mean of 25.94) had been statistically significant, and the difference between each mean of the two experimental groups and the mean of control group was significant. This research showed that the effect of schema therapy on reducing inefficient attitudes was more than interpersonal skills training.