Comparison the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy and compassion therapy on components of subjective well-being (emotional, psychological and social)

The present research aimed to comparison the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy and compassion therapy on components of subjective well-being. This study was semi-experimental with pretest and posttest design with control group. The research population was men patient with multiple sclerosis of member of multiple sclerosis association of Tehran city in 2019year. The research sample was 45 people who after reviewing the criteria for entering to study were selected by purposive sampling method and by simple randomly method replaced into three equal groups. The experimental groups were trained 8 sessions of 75minute (one session per week) with the methods of acceptance and commitment therapy and compassion therapy, respectively and the control group was placed on the waiting list for training. Data were collected with using the subjective well-being questionnaire and analyzed by methods of multivariate analysis of covariance and post hoc bonferroni test in SPSS version 19 software. The findings showed that both methods of acceptance and commitment therapy and compassion therapy led to increase emotional, psychological and social well-being in patient with multiple sclerosis (p < 0.05) and between both methods there was no significant difference in improving their emotional, psychological and social well-being (P>0.05). The results indicated the effectiveness of both methods in increasing the components of subjective well-being and no significant difference between them. Therefore, the use of both methods for improving subjective well-being is suggested to therapists and health experts.