The effects of emotion-based group work on psychosocial functions of LGBT people

ABSTRACT

The study aims to measure the effects of emotion-based group work containing approaches from the intergroup emotions theory on LGBT people where live in Turkey to provide emotion regulation and improve psychosocial functioning. 20 LGBT people (10 participants in experimental group, 10 participants in control group) were included for group work. The Need for Affect Scale (NAS) was implemented to both groups before and after the group work. After the group work, significant differences were found between the experimental and control groups.    It was observed that emotion-based group work was effective in increasing the expression and the experience of LGBT people’s positive emotions and improved their psychosocial functioning.

KEYWORDS:

• Emotion
• intergroup emotions theory
• group work
• psychosocial functions
• LGBT

Acknowledgments

The authors thank the Social Policy, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Association for providing the place for group work, and the group participants for sincerely sharing their feelings, thoughts and experiences.

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, upon reasonable request.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.