Comparison of the Effectiveness of Positive Psychology Intervention and Emotion Regulation Skills Training on Subjective Well-Being, Eating Styles, Self-Control and Body Mass Index in the Overweight Women

Ranjbar Noushari, Farzaneh (2018) Comparison of the Effectiveness of Positive Psychology Intervention and Emotion Regulation Skills Training on Subjective Well-Being, Eating Styles, Self-Control and Body Mass Index in the Overweight Women. Doctoral thesis, university of Mohaghegh Ardabili.

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Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to compaire the effectiveness of positive psychology intervention and emotion regulation skills training on subjective well-being, eating styles, self-control and body mass index in the overweight women. This study is an experimental method with a pre-test, post-test and follow-up design with control group. The statistical population included all female students of Payame Noor University of Rezvanshahr (104 persons) that were overweight. According to the health monitoring plan, among students with a BMI of 25 to 29.99, 60 subjects who met the inclusion criteria were selected as sample by convenience sampling, then randomly divided into two experimental and one control group (20 persons in each group). Finally, after dropping out of the subjects, 51 subjects remaind until the end of interventions. The positive psychology intervention was conducted during 14 sessions and emotion regulation skills training was conducted during 12 sessions in experimental groups, while the control group did not receive any intervention. Subjective well-being, self-control and eating styles questionnaires were used to collect data in pre-test, post-test and follow-up (after two months). BMI was also measured in these three stages. Data were analyzed by using repeated measures analysis of variance. The results showed that both interventions had a positive effect on the improvement of subjective well-being and its componenets and no change occurred in the control group during the process of assessment. However, the positive psychology intervention was more effective than the other intervention on social and psychological components and global subjective well-being, and the emotion regulation skills training was more effective on emotional well-being. Also, the results show positive psychology intervention and emotion regulation training has significant impacts on self-control, eating styles and body mass index in the overweight women, and the emotion regulation training was more effective on self-control and eating styles. There was no significant difference between two interventions in terms of efficacy on BMI. The results of the present study can be the basis for using these interventions in the overweight persons.

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