The Effects of the Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy with Individual Counseling on Self-Esteem of Broken Hearted Women

Abstract

              This experimental research, aimed to study the effects of the Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy with individual counseling on self-esteem of broken hearted women. The participants were 12 broken hearted women with score of self-esteem up to 5 score. The sample was female undergraduate from 18-22 years old who had experience of heartbreak not over 2 months. They were randomly using random assignment into 2 group equally; the experimental and control group. The two instruments used in this research were self-esteem inventory and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) with individual counseling program. Self-Esteem Test was developed by Sorensen Self-Esteem Test (Soren, 2006) which the researcher translated into Thai version with reliability at .85. The data collection procedure was divided into 3 phases: pre-test, post-test and follow up and analyzed by using repeated-measure analysis of variance: one between-subject and within subject variable, including pair comparison through the Bonferroni procedure. The results of the study indicated that there was a statistically significant interaction at the .05 level between the treatment method and the phase of experiment. The experimental group score had self-esteem higher than the control group with a statistically significant interaction at .05 for both post-test and the follow up. But, results of scores on self-esteem in the past-test and the follow-up were not statistically significant difference.