Comparison of the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy and spiritual therapy on learned helplessness, loneliness and death anxiety in the elderly Movement disorder

Ziba Barghi Irani¹ Nasrin Dinarvand²

1) Assistant Professor of Payame Noor University
2) Master of Payame Noor University

IOI Code : XCBZ-EHKFF
Publication : 3 rd Conference on Psychology, Educational Sciences, Social Sciences and Counseling (cpsconf.com/2nd)
Abstract :
    The aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy and spiritual therapy on learned helplessness, loneliness and death anxiety in the elderly with mobility disorders. The research design was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test with control group and follow-up period. The statistical population included all elderly people aged 60-75 years with mobility disorders. From the above statistical population, 30 people were selected by purposive non-random sampling method and randomly assigned to experimental groups (10 people in spiritual therapy group and 10 people in metacognitive therapy group) and control group (10 people) and were assigned to attribution style questionnaires (ASQ). Loneliness and Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) responded. The control group waited and spiritual therapy and metacognitive therapy were performed for the experimental groups in 8 sessions of 90 minutes. Research data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and repeated measures analysis of variance and Beferroni post hoc test. The results indicate that there is a significant difference between the two interventions of metacognitive therapy and spiritual therapy in improving the loneliness of the elderly in the follow-up stage (p <0.01). As a result, it can be said that spiritual therapy-based intervention has a greater effect on reducing the loneliness of the elderly with mobility disorders than metacognitive therapy intervention (p <0.05). As a result, it can be said that there is a significant difference between spiritual therapy and metacognitive therapy in learned helplessness, death anxiety and loneliness in the elderly with movement disorders. It should be said that spiritual therapy intervention is more effective than metacognitive therapy intervention over time.

Keywords : metacognitive therapy spiritual therapy learned helplessness loneliness death anxiety