The effectiveness of Emotion-oriented cognitive therapy on self-efficacy and cognitive emotional regulation in obese women

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive emotion therapy on self-efficacy and emotional cognitive regulation in obese women in Tehran in 1399. The method of the present study is quasi-experimental and a pre-test-post-test design with a control group has been used to collect data. The statistical population of the study consisted of all obese women referred to nutrition and diet therapy centers in Tehran, from which 30 people were selected by purposive sampling and randomly in the experimental group (15 people in each group) and control group (15 people) were appointed. The experimental group was trained in 10 sessions of 90 minutes for cognitive emotion therapy, and the control group remained on the waiting list. The tools used in the present study included self-efficacy (Scherer and Maddox, 1982) and cognitive emotion regulation (Garnowski et al., 2001), which were used in two stages: pre-test and post-test. The analysis of the information obtained from the implementation of the questionnaire was performed through spss24 software in two descriptive and inferential sections (analysis of covariance). The results showed that cognitive emotion therapy treatment increased self-efficacy in obese women. The results also showed that cognitive emotion-oriented therapy increased emotional cognitive regulation in obese women. According to the results of this study, emotion-oriented therapy is an effective intervention in increasing self-efficacy and emotional cognitive regulation in obese women.