Comparison of the Effectiveness of Schema Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy on Temperament and Character Dimensions and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in Patients with HIV

There are many social concerns towards HIV disease and people feel irrational fears of infection modes virus transmission. These factors might affect the temperament character dimensions, as well cognitive emotion regulation strategies. Accordingly, psychological therapies can be used beneficial tools to identify mitigate related concerns. This study aimed at comparing effectiveness Schema Therapy (ST) Dialectical Behavior (DBT) on (TC) dimensions (CER) strategies in patients with HIV. In terms methodology, this was an experimental based pretest-posttest control group. Also, applied research objective. The statistical population comprised all who were under treatment behavioral disorders clinics Health Centers Hamedan, Iran, during 2019-2020. Of them, 45 subjects chosen by using simple random sampling then assigned three groups (n=15), including two intervention one To assess considered variables, Temperament Character Inventory (TCI) designed Cloninger (1994), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) (2001) used. According ANCOVA results, ST DBT affected there a significant difference between groups. Therefore, although both had surveyed higher rather than DBT.