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The Comparison of Effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Marital Basic Needs Among Women With Marital Conflicts
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Mahnaz Esmaeili   , Alireza Mardpour * , Ghader Zadeh Bagheri |
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Abstract: (1172 Views) |
Introduction: Considering importance of marriage and growing statistics of divorce, methods to decrease marital conflicts and increase marital satisfaction hold great importance. The purpose of this study was to comparison of effectiveness of emotion-focused couple therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy on marital basic needs among women with marital conflicts.
Methods: This semi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group and follow-up 2 month. In this research, the statistical population was all women who referred to counseling centers in Tehran city in year 1401. In the first stage, using convenience sampling method, 45 women with a score of 111 and above in the marital conflict questionnaire of Barati and Sanai (2008) were selected and then randomly divided into 2 experimental groups (each group 15 people) and one control group (15 people) were replaced and experimental groups underwent emotion-focused couple therapy (10 sessions 90 minutes) and acceptance and commitment therapy (8 sessions 90 minutes). To collect data couple’s basic needs assessment scale by Maaref et al (2019). Analysis of variance with repeated measures with SPSS software was used for data analysis.
Results: The results showed that both interventions had a significant effect on Power (f=8.487, sig=0.001), love (f=35.359, sig=0.001), fun (f=6.699, sig=0.001), freedom (f=36.764 , sig=0.001), survive (f = 60.219, sig = 0.001) and the total score of marital basic needs (f = 76.084, sig = 0.001) among women with marital conflicts (P<0.05). In addition, the results of Bonferroni post hoc test showed that emotion-focused couple therapy is more effective in marital basic needs (P<0.05).
Conclusions: Based on the results of the present study, it can be said that emotion-focused couple therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy can be used as a treatment method to on marital basic needs among women with marital conflicts in marital counseling centers.
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| Keywords: emotion-focused couple therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, marital basic needs, marital conflicts. |
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Type of Study: Rehabilitation Nursing |
Subject:
behavioral sciences
Received: 2023/07/10 | Accepted: 2024/02/6 | Published: 2024/10/1
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