Comparison of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy in Reducing Alexithymia and Impulsivity in Individuals with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and short-term psychodynamic therapy (STPD) in reducing alexithymia and impulsivity in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This study is a quasi-experimental research with a pre-test, post-test, and follow-up design. The statistical population consisted of individuals diagnosed with OCD who sought treatment at various counseling and psychological service centers in Birjand from March to December of the year 2023. A total of 60 individuals were purposively selected based on Cohen's table and randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group. The first experimental group received 10 sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy, while the second experimental group received 11 sessions of short-term psychodynamic therapy. The control group did not receive any intervention during this period. The research instruments included the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) by Bagby, Parker, and Taylor (1994), and the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) by Goodman, Price, and Rasmussen (1986), which were administered at three stages: pre-test, post-test, and follow-up. To analyze the data, a repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used. The results indicated that both cognitive behavioral therapy and short-term psychodynamic therapy led to a significant reduction in alexithymia and impulsivity at the post-test stage (p < 0.05), and the effects of the treatments were maintained after three months. Furthermore, no significant difference was found between the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy and short-term psychodynamic therapy in reducing alexithymia and impulsivity in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (p > 0.05). Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that there is no significant difference between the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy and short-term psychodynamic therapy in reducing alexithymia and impulsivity in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Both therapies can be used to reduce and modify alexithymia and impulsivity in individuals with OCD.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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