The relationships of personality organization, mental illness attitudes and perspectives toward psychotherapy

The mediating role of emotional self‐disclosure

Bibliographic Data

ID21748085
AuthorsMojtaba Rahimian Bougar (0000-0001-6574-9627, Islamic Azad University, Tehran), Sara Khavasi (Islamic Azad University Tonekabon), Siamak Khodarahimi (0000-0003-1031-2078, Rasti Psychological Clinic Shiraz Iran, corresponding author), Nasrollah Mazraeh (Islamic Azad University, Tehran), Alireza Merati (Payame Noor University), Maeda Hesam (Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani Non Profit University Esfahan Iran), Pantea Sadat Alavi (Islamic Azad University, Tehran)
Year2024
Volume21
Issue3
Publication date2024-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1556-9187 • E-ISSN: 1742-3341
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/aps.1887
OpenAlexW4401036583
LanguageEN
References cited46

This study investigated the relationships between personality organization, Mental Illness Attitude (MIA), and Perspectives Toward Psychotherapy (PTP) with regard to the mediating role of Emotional Self‐Disclosure (ESD) by utilizing structural equation modeling (SEM). A sample of 266 outpatients with mental health disorders was selected using a purposive sampling method. Data collection involved the use of the Inventory of Personality Organization, The Illness Attitudes Scale, Emotional Self‐Disclosure Scale, and Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help‐The10‐item (ATSPPH‐SF). The results revealed that personality organization, MIA, and ESD have significant associations with PTP. Also, MIA has a positive indirect relationship with PTP through ESD as a mediator, while personality organization negatively correlated to PTP through ESD. Personality organization, MIA, and ESD collectively accounted for 72.8% of the variance in PTP. Findings demonstrated an adequately fitting model about the direct and indirect associations of personality organization and MIA with PTP about the mediating role of ESD. This model has implications for psychotherapeutic and community‐based initiatives in individuals with mental health disorders

Mental health · Mental illness · Nonprobability sampling · Personality · Personality disorders · Psychotherapist · Structural equation modeling · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychology · Social Psychology

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