Attachment-based Therapy on Emotional Autonomy,Emotion Regulation and Rumination in AdolescentsWith Depression Symptoms

Background: adolescence is an important period in the social and psychological developmentof human beings. depression is a major problem that now affects many adolescents.objectives: the present study aimed to investigate the effects of attachment-based therapyon emotional autonomy, emotion regulation, and rumination in adolescents with depressionsymptoms.materials & methods: this quasi-experimental research adopted a pre-test-post-test controlgroup design. purposive sampling was employed to select 30 adolescents with depressionsymptoms as the research sample. they were then assigned randomly to an experimental andcontrol group (n=15 per group). the experimental group received an intervention includingtwelve 45-minute sessions. all participants completed the emotional autonomy scale (eas), theemotion regulation questionnaire (erq), and the rumination response scale (rrs) at the pre-test,post-test, and follow-up stages. the repeated measures anova was used for data analysis.results: according to the results, there was a significant difference between the experimentaland control groups in the mean scores of emotional autonomy, emotion regulation, andrumination (p<0.001). the results also indicated that attachment-based therapy significantlyimproved emotional autonomy, emotion regulation strategies (e.g. reappraisal and suppression)and rumination at the post-test and follow-up stages (p<0.001).conclusion: attachment-based therapy should be employed as a therapeutic priority forimproving emotional autonomy and emotion regulation strategies (e.g. reappraisal andsuppression) and alleviating rumination in adolescents with depression symptoms.