The effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychology approach on fear of intimacy and emotion regulation in adolescents

This research was conducted to determine the effectiveness of an intensive and short-term psychodynamic approach to the fear of intimacy and emotional regulation of adolescents. The study was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a follow-up period after three months. The statistical population of the research was all teenagers aged 15 to 18 in Rasht city in 2023, of which 34 people were selected as a sample using the available sampling method and randomly divided into two experimental groups (17 people) and control groups (17 people). They got. The experimental group participated in the intensive short-term dynamic psychology approach program (Davanloo, 1996) for 10 sessions of 60 minutes. The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) by Gratz & Roemer (2004) and the Fear of Intimacy Questionnaire (FIS) by Descutner & Thelen (1991) were used to collect data. The collected data were analyzed by repeated measure analysis of variance, for this purpose SPSS statistical software was used. The findings showed that the intensive and short-term psychodynamic approach and evidence a significant reduction in the scores of fear of intimacy and difficulty in regulating emotions in the experimental group compared to the control group, in the post-test (P<0.01) and follow-up (P<0.05) stages. Also, this difference in the follow-up phase was significant at the 0.05 level. It can be concluded that the intensive and short-term psychodynamic approach can be effective in the fear of intimacy and emotional regulation of teenagers.