effectiveness of transactional analysis group therapy on identity styles and self-efficacy of female students in the second district of tehran during the academic year of 2018-2019

Background: a systemic personality theory and social dynamics are given in the transactional analysis for behavior. the objective of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of transactional analysis on self-efficacy and identity styles of iranian female students. methods: the present research was quasi- experimental with pretest-posttest design with a control group. the study population included all the second year of high school female students (458) in the second district of tehran, iran, during the academic year 2018-19. out of them, 30 individuals were selected using purposeful sampling method. for data collection, the self-efficacy scale and identity styles questionnaire were employed. they were then assigned randomly to the two control (n=15) and experimental (n=15) groups. the experimental group received transactional analysis training for 10 treatment sessions (90 minutes for each session). the data were analyzed with analysis of covariance (ancova) in spss version 23. results: mean and sd of age in the transactional analysis and the control groups were 16.87 ±0.834 and 17±0.926, respectively. moreover, our findings showed that transactional analysis training had a significant effect on the experimental group in identity styles and self-efficacy scores (academic, social, and emotional) (p=0.001). conclusions: the result of our study showed that group psychotherapy with transactional analysis approach had significant effects on identity style and self-efficacy. for the assessment of organizations and their management, evaluating child growth, managing psychiatric problems at educational facilities and for social workers, transactional analysis were found to be useful.