Effectiveness in Transpersonal Psychotherapy. Effects of “The Game of Attention” on the “Big Five Factors” of Personality.
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https://doi.org/10.5944/rdp.v36i132.42084Keywords:
transpersonal psychotherapy, effectiveness of psychotherapy, personality change, big five, general personality factor,, group psychotherapyAbstract
Framed in the context of transpersonal psychology, “The Mindfulness Game” is a group psychotherapy work developed by Marly Kuenerz over the last 35 years. The purpose of the present study is to provide evidence about whether this structured model of psychotherapy is effective in promoting favorable changes in the mental and emotional health of the participants, expressed in improvements in some dimensions of personality more directly related to psychological well-being and a reduced presence of psychopathology. For this purpose, a sample of 215 participants in this psychotherapy process was evaluated, 18% men and 82% women, with a mean age of 43.2 years (SD = 9.2). The analyses show a statistically significant improvement, from pretest to posttest, carried out one year later, in the dimension of “Emotional Stability”, the antagonistic pole to “Neuroticism”, both from the “big five” model (evaluated with BFQ and NEO-FFI). Likewise, an effect size of high magnitude was observed (Cohen's d: 0.82). Together with other minor results, it is possible to understand that the changes favored by the psychotherapeutic process studied are linked to the dimension of “Stability”, expressed in terms of the general personality factor (GPF) of Van der Liden et al., identifiable with the so-called “good adult temperament”, which leads to a healthier and better developed personality, and a lower presence of psychopathology.
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