Effectiveness of the Clinical Creativity Therapy Model on Reduction of Anxiety and Depression in Iran’s High School Students

Autor: Abbas Rohani, Morteza Raei Dehaghi, Mohammad Khushavi
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. 6:25-31
ISSN: 2414-3073
2415-0916
Popis: The present study aims to explore the effectiveness of the clinical creativity therapy model on the reduction of anxiety and depression in the first-grade high school male students. The statistical population included all first- grade high school male students in Najafabad, Iran, in the academic year 2018-2020, among whom 30 students were selected through convenience sampling purposively. Beck Anxiety and Depression questionnaires were employed as a pre-test for all participants. Then, the participants in the treatment group were subjected to the clinical creativity therapy model in 8 sessions, while the control group did not receive any intervention. The above questionnaires were executed again for both groups as post-test. The finding was analyzed using ANCOVA and MANCOVA covariance analysis. The results of MANCOVA analysis revealed that there is a significant difference between the mean of post-test scores of anxiety and depression in both treatment and control groups (p
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