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Background: Emotional Divorce (ED) is associated with decreased levels of Emotion Regulation (ER), adaptation, and mental health; subsequently, all such pressures raise stress in various dimensions among the affected individuals. Emotional Schema Therapy (EST), as a socio-cognitive model of ER, may improve marital intimacy and reduce couples’ psychological distress. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of EST and differentiation training on the odds of ED among women.
Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest and a control group design. The study population comprised all women referring to the Education Counseling Center, District 6 of Tehran Municipality in Tehran City, Iran, in 2018. In total, 45 women were recruited by convenience sampling method and were randomly assigned into two experimental groups and a control group (n=15/group). The research questionnaire was the Emotional Divorce Scale (EDS). The first experimental group underwent eight 90-minute weekly sessions of SET and the second experimental group received eight 90-minute weekly sessions of differentiation training; however, the controls received no intervention. Data analysis was performed using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) in SPSS. The significance level was considered as P=0.05.
Results: The mean values of ED significantly decreased in both experimental groups, compared to the control group (P<0.05). A significant difference was also observed between the effects of the two interventions on decreasing the ED rate; thus, the effectiveness of EST was greater than that of differentiation training in this respect (P<0.05).
Conclusion: EST and differentiation training reduced ED among the study participants. These approaches can be adopted as an effective intervention to solve the couples’ problems and improve their marital relationship to reduce the odds of emotional divorce.
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عمومى دریافت: 1398/12/16 | پذیرش: 1399/4/17 | انتشار: 1399/11/13