The effectiveness of functional psychoanalysis on self-differentiation and quality of thematic relationships in people with narcissistic personality disorder
The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of functional psychoanalysis on self-differentiation and quality of thematic relationships in people with narcissistic personality disorder. The research design was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population of this study consisted of all men with narcissistic personality disorder who referred to psychological clinics in District 5 of Tehran in 1400, from which 30 people were selected by available sampling method and randomly. They were replaced in two equal groups of 15 people. Data collection tools in this study were Bell (1985) Thematic Relationships Questionnaire and Skorn and Friedlander (1998) Self-Differentiation Questionnaire. In data analysis, multivariate covariance test was used to test the main hypothesis and univariate for lateral hypotheses with SPSS software. The results showed that functional psychoanalysis has a significant effect on self-differentiation and the quality of thematic relationships in people with narcissistic personality disorder.
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fardi,M and ale yasin,S A . (2022). The effectiveness of functional psychoanalysis on self-differentiation and quality of thematic relationships in people with narcissistic personality disorder. Applied Research in Consulting, 5(1), 1-18.
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fardi,M , and ale yasin,S A . "The effectiveness of functional psychoanalysis on self-differentiation and quality of thematic relationships in people with narcissistic personality disorder", Applied Research in Consulting, 5, 1, 2022, 1-18.
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fardi M, ale yasin S A. (2022). 'The effectiveness of functional psychoanalysis on self-differentiation and quality of thematic relationships in people with narcissistic personality disorder', Applied Research in Consulting, 5(1), pp. 1-18.
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fardi M, ale yasin S A. The effectiveness of functional psychoanalysis on self-differentiation and quality of thematic relationships in people with narcissistic personality disorder. Applied Research in Consulting. 2022;5(1):1-18 (In Persian).