The Comparing the Effectiveness of Compassion-Focused Therapy and Positive-Focused Psychotherapy on Internet Addiction in Students University

Ghafari Aghdam, Tayebeh; Taheri, Afsaneh; Bagheri, Nasrin

doi:10.22055/jacp.2025.50200.1507

The Comparing the Effectiveness of Compassion-Focused Therapy and Positive-Focused Psychotherapy on Internet Addiction in Students University

10.22055/jacp.2025.50200.1507

Volume 11, Issue 4
Autumn 2025

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Tayebeh Ghafari Aghdam

Afsaneh Taheri

Nasrin Bagheri

Department of Psychology, Ro.C. Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to comparing the effectiveness of compassion-focused therapy and positive-focused psychotherapy on internet addiction in students university. This semi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group and follow-up 2 month. The statistical population of the study was students University of Islamic Azad University, west Tehran branch in winter year 2025. Then the number of 60 students University were randomly divided into two groups, including an compassion-focused therapy group (20 student), positive-focused psychotherapy group (20 student) and a control group (20 student). Then the first experimental group underwent 10 sessions of 90 minute compassion-focused therapy and the second experimental group underwent 10 sessions of 90 minute of positive-focused psychotherapy. To collect data internet addiction test (IAT) Young (1998). Analysis of variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni post hoc test was used for data analysis. The data analysis software was SPSS version 29. The results showed that both interventions had a significant effect on internet addiction (P

Keywords

compassion-focused therapy

internet addiction

positive-focused psychotherapy

Subjects