The Effectiveness of Emotion Efficacy Therapy on Fear of Negative Evaluation, Experiential Avoidance, Parental Burnout and Psychological Hardiness among Mothers with Autistic Children

The effectiveness of Emotion Efficacy Therapy on fear of negative evaluation, experiential avoidance, parental burnout and psychological hardiness of mothers with Autistic children.

The research is pre-test-post-test with a control group and a follow-up period with factorial groups and a blind. 30 people were selected through available sampling and randomly assigned to two groups of 15 people, control and experimental. Statistical analysis was done with SPSS version 23 and variance analysis of repeated measures.

The statistical population was made up of mothers with Autistic children of Dasthaye Mehrabani School (Darya) in Isfahan city in 1401. 30 people were selected by available sampling and randomly assigned to two groups of 15 people.The proposed intervention was based on Emotion Efficacy Therapy (McKay and West, 2016).The sessions based on the treatment protocol were offered to the experimental group in the form of 8 sessions. For blinding, participants did not know which group they were in.

Research entry criteria 1-The minimum level of education 2-Mothers of Autistic children 3-Willingness to participate in the research and complete the research questionnaires completely Exclusion criteria from the research 1-Absence of more than two sessions 2-Irregular attendance at sessions

A pre-test was taken from both study groups. Only the experimental group received Emotion Efficacy Therapy (McKay & West, 2016). After that, in the post-test and follow-up phase, the questionnaires were administered in both groups.

fear of negative evaluation; experiential avoidance; parental burnout ; psychological hardiness

The samples were identified by random block method and using random numbers table, Random Allocation Software. Blocking and allocation sequence for concealment was done by a person not involved in the research; Allocation Concealment. Blocking: This method was used to avoid significant imbalances in the number of volunteers assigned to each group. Block randomization ensures that there is no significant imbalance between groups at any time during randomization, and that at certain points the number of participants in each group is equalized. For this purpose, the size of each block must be determined first (for example, a block of four), then write the list of blocks and assign numbers to them, then choose random numbers between 1 to 6 and finally determine the allocation of treatment based on the previous random numbers, in intervention group and control group.

After receiving informed consent, the participants were randomly assigned to the intervention group. The volunteers may not have been aware of the main purpose of the research, but they only knew that they were participating in a study that could improve their psychological problems. In addition, the data analyst did not know the content of the intervention sessions and was only aware of the assumptions, goals and questions of the research.

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