Year: 2020
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: Distress tolerance is a psychological construct which has to be considered as it can trigger the development of \npsychopathology of individuals. One of the predictors of distress tolerance is self-esteem. Positive perspectives make \nindividual able to tolerate psychological stresses. This study aims to determine the effect of self-esteem group therapy on \ndistress tolerance. This research was a quasi-experimental research with a non-randomized pretest-posttest control group \ndesign. The data were collected through Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and Distress Tolerance Scale. The subject of this study \nwas broken home teenagers aged 12-15 years with low self-esteem and moderate distress tolerance levels. The data were \nanalyzed using non-parametric analysis including Wilcoxon Test, Mann Whitney Test, and Kendall Correlation Test. The \nresults of manipulation checks show that self-esteem group therapy manages to increase self-esteem, thus affected the \nincrease in distress tolerance of broken home teenagers.
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3135535737