Saeedi Rashkolia Ali, Manzari Tavakoli Alireza, Zeinaddiny Meymand Zahra, Hosseini Fard Seyed Mehdi
Department of Psychology, Zarand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zarand, Iran.
Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran.
Addict Health. 2022 Apr;14(2):127-137. doi: 10.22122/AHJ.2022.196559.1295.
Addiction is a psychiatric disorder with biological, psychological, and social aspects. Literatures indicated that alexithymia, emotional dysregulation, and low psychological capital affect substance abuse. This study investigated the effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy on alexithymia, emotional regulation, and psychological capital of male substance abusers.
This quasi-experimental study was conducted in 2021 in Kerman, Iran using a pretest, post-test design with a control group. A single therapy center was randomly selected via the multi-stage cluster method from several substance abuse treatment centers. 50 people were randomly selected and allocated to experimental and control groups. The research instruments were questionnaires for alexithymia, emotional regulation, and psychological capital. After the pretest phase, the experimental group underwent 12 sessions of interpersonal psychotherapy. In the next step, the post-test was conducted and after 6 weeks the follow-up test was performed on the groups. The control group did not receive the treatment. Finally, the data obtained from 40 participants were analyzed using the MANCOVA test by SPSS25 statistical software.
Our findings indicated significant MANCOVA results for alexithymia (F=65.14 and P<0.05), emotion regulation (F=44.72 and P<0.05) and psychological capital (F=12.05 and P<0.05) showing a significant difference between the scores of dependent variables in the experimental group and control group.
The results showed that interpersonal psychotherapy improves the state of alexithymia, emotional regulation, and psychological capital in substance abusers. It can also be used as an effective intervention in addiction treatment centers.
成瘾是一种具有生物学、心理学和社会层面的精神疾病。文献表明，述情障碍、情绪调节障碍和低心理资本会影响药物滥用。本研究调查了人际心理治疗对男性药物滥用者的述情障碍、情绪调节和心理资本的有效性。
本准实验研究于2021年在伊朗克尔曼进行，采用前测、后测设计并设有对照组。通过多阶段整群抽样法从多个药物滥用治疗中心中随机选取一个治疗中心。随机选取50人并分配到实验组和对照组。研究工具为述情障碍、情绪调节和心理资本问卷。在前测阶段之后，实验组接受了12次人际心理治疗。下一步，进行后测，并在6周后对两组进行随访测试。对照组未接受治疗。最后，使用SPSS25统计软件通过多变量协方差分析（MANCOVA）对从40名参与者获得的数据进行分析。
我们的研究结果表明，在述情障碍（F=65.14，P<0.05）、情绪调节（F=44.72，P<0.05）和心理资本（F=12.05，P<0.05）方面，多变量协方差分析结果显著，表明实验组和对照组的因变量得分存在显著差异。
结果表明，人际心理治疗可改善药物滥用者的述情障碍、情绪调节和心理资本状况。它也可作为成瘾治疗中心的一种有效干预措施。
