The Effect of Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy on Promoting Meaning in Lives of Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Effect of Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy on Promoting Meaning in Lives of Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury

Published:2023-09-25 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:0034-3552
Container-title:Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin
language:en
Short-container-title:Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin

Author:

Abed Mohammadreza¹,Rezaei-Jamalouei Hasan²,Raeisi Zohreh²,Ansari Shahidi Mojtaba²,Taheri Mahdi³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

2. Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

3. Sadjad University, Mashad, Iran

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy (MCGP) on promoting meaning in the lives of individuals with spinal cord injury. This single-blind study was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test, follow-up, and experimental and control groups. Forty-three patients with poor meaning in life were selected by purposive sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group received MCGP, while the control group received no intervention. The data were collected by the Meaning in Life Questionnaire and analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance. The results revealed significant differences between the post-test and follow-up scores of the experimental and control groups regarding the presence of meaning in life and the search for meaning in life. Also, no significant difference was found between the post-test and follow-up scores of the experimental group, which demonstrated the stability of the treatment effects. In general, MCGP significantly improved the meaning in the lives of patients with spinal cord injury.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Applied Psychology,Rehabilitation

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00343552231199244

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