suicide

Objective: The aim of the research was to determine the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on insecure attachment, fear of intimacy, and addiction to social networks in adolescents with a history of suicide attempts.
Method: The research method was semi-experimental with a control group and a pretest-posttest-follow-up design. The statistical population consisted of 49 male and female adolescents with a history of suicide attempts who had visited the emergency departments of Imam Khomeini Medical Center in District 1 and Taleghani Medical Center in District 8 of Kermanshah in 2024. 33 adolescents were selected by convenience sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups.
Research Tools: The research tools included Hazan and Shaver's Attachment Styles Questionnaire (1987), the Fear of Intimacy Scale by Deschamps and Thullen (2000), the Social Media Addiction Questionnaire by Khajeh Ahmadi, Poladi, and Bahrini (2016), and the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy program by Hayes and Roy (2010). The intervention was conducted in 8 weekly sessions, each lasting 5 hours, for the experimental group. Both groups completed the research questionnaires at three stages, and the data were analyzed using mixed analysis of variance with repeated measures.
Findings: The results showed that ACT had an effect on insecure attachment (F = 82.33, P = 0.03), fear of intimacy (F = 82.33, P = 0.03), and social media addiction (F = 83.33, P = 0.03), and this effect remained stable at the three-month follow-up stage.
Conclusion: Since ACT leads to psychological flexibility and individual commitment to performing meaningful actions based on human values, it can be used as an effective intervention method for addressing psychological issues, including preventing suicide attempts among adolescents.
Keywords: Addiction, Acceptance, Commitment, Suicide, Insecure Attachment, Social Networks