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Effect of group counseling based on reality therapy on identity crisis in students of guidance schools

Introduction: This study was carried out to clarify the effect of group counseling based on reality therapy on identity crisis in students of guidance schools. Materials and Methods: This semi-experimental study was conducted in Khorram Abad city, western part of Iran in 2007-8. Cluster sampling method was used to select 418 students among who were studying in third grade of guidance school in Khorram Abad. All subjects completed the personal identity inventory as a pre-test, and then 32 students who obtained the higher scores were selected and randomly divided into two groups. Sixteen students formed the experimental group, who were received 10 sessions of group counseling based on reality therapy. Control group were 16 students, who did not experience any intervention. At last, experimental and control groups fulfilled the personal identity inventory once more as a post-test. Descriptive indices, multi-variable regression and ANCOVA tests were used to analyze the data. Results: Mean of personal identity score of students was 12.65 ± 7.43 and 72 persons suffered from high amount of identity crisis. Multi-variable regression showed that group counseling based on reality therapy approach could significantly reduce the identity crisis among students (P 0.05).