The effectiveness of group therapy based on acceptance and commitment on emotional eating, body image and rumination of overweight female students

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1 Counseling student, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Kurdistan (Sanandaj), Iran

2 Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Kurdistan (Sanandaj), Iran

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The aim of this research was to determine the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment group therapy on emotional eating, body image and rumination of overweight female students. The current research was semi-experimental and in the form of a two-group pre-test-post-test design with a 2-month follow-up. The population of this research is all overweight teenage students (13 to 17 years old) who were introduced to obesity treatment centers in Borujerd city by school health educators; A sample of 30 people was selected and randomly divided into two groups of 15 people. The tools used were the rumination scale questionnaire by Nalen Hoeksma in 1991, the multidimensional self-body relationship questionnaire by Bern et al. (1990), and the Stein eating behavior questionnaire (1986). The experimental group received 8 sessions of acceptance and commitment group therapy. Analysis of covariance test was used to analyze the data. The results of the research showed that group therapy based on acceptance and commitment has a significant effect on emotional eating, self-image and rumination of overweight female students. Therefore, group therapy based on acceptance and commitment can be used as a new therapeutic approach in improving emotional eating skills, self-image and rumination of overweight female students. Keywords: group therapy based on acceptance and commitment, emotional eating, self-body image, rumination, female students

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