A social work study on the effect of transactional analysis on the improvement of intimacy attitude

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of group counseling using transactional analysis on the improvement of intimacy attitude in some depressed patients in city of Esfahan, Iran. In this paper, semi-experimental design with pretest posttest control groups was conducted among 30 patients. The sample was selected through available sampling method among the depressed patients referred to psychiatric centers. They were randomly assigned into experimental and control groups. The measurement instrument is intimacy attitude scale (IAS) questionnaire by Amidon et al. (1983) [Amidon, E., Kumar, V. K., & Treadwell, T. (1983). Measurement of intimacy attitudes: The intimacy attitude scale-revisited. Journal of personality assessment, 47(6), 635-639.] and the Beck depression inventory (BDI). The pretest and posttest scores of the intimacy attitude scale questionnaire were analyzed in both experimental and control groups. For statistical analysis of data, repeated measures analysis of variance was carried out. The research findings indicated that group counseling using transactional analysis increases the level of intimacy attitude in depressed individuals. It also increases the emotional intimacy, but it does not increase the mental intimacy.

How to cite this paper

 Gol, P., Farahbakhsh, K & Rezaei, F. (2013). A social work study on the effect of transactional analysis on the improvement of intimacy attitude.Management Science Letters , 3(4), 1181-1186.

Refrences

Amidon, E., Kumar, V. K., & Treadwell, T. (1983). Measurement of Intimacy Attitudes: The
Intimacy Attitude Scale-Revisited. Journal of personality assessment, 47(6), 635-639.

Bagarozzi, D. (2001). Enhancing Intimacy in Marriage: A Clinician & apos; s Handbook. Routledge.
Bandura, A. (1998). Personal and collective efficacy in human adaptation and change. Advances in
psychological science, 1, 51-71.

Bischoff, W. R., Bisconer, S. W., Kooker, B. M., & Woods, L. C. (1996). Transactional distance and
interactive television in the distance education of health professionals. American Journal of
Distance Education, 10(3), 4-19.

Blatt, S. J. (1998). Contributions of psychoanalysis to the understanding and treatment of
depression. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association,46(3), 723-752.

Bridewell, W. B., & Chang, E. C. (1997). Distinguishing between anxiety, depression, and hostility:
Relations to anger-in, anger-out, and anger control.Personality and Individual Differences, 22(4),
587-590.

Cheng, H. L., Mallinckrodt, B., & Wu, L. C. (2005). Anger expression toward parents and depressive
symptoms among undergraduates in Taiwan. The Counseling Psychologist, 33(1), 72-97.
Deffenbacher, J. L. (1999). Cognitive-behavioral conceptualization and treatment of anger. Journal of
Clinical Psychology, 55, 295-309.

Deffenbacher, J. L. (2011). Cognitive-behavioral conceptualization and treatment of anger. Cognitive
and Behavioral Practice, 18(2), 212-221.

Fava, M., Alpert, J., Nierenberg, A. A., Ghaemi, N., O, Sullivan, R., Tedlow, J., Worthington, J.,
Rosenbaum, J. F. (1996). Fluoxetine treatment of anger attacks: A replication study. Annals of
Clinical Psychiatry, 8, 7-10.