Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
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DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY, TABRIZ, IRAN
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Assistant Professorof, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of schema therapy on quality of life and marital satisfaction of men with emotional divorce. The research design was quasi-experimental and pre-test-post-test with a control group. The statistical population was married men in Tabriz in 1399, 30 of whom were selected by available sampling method, based on a questionnaire, of which 15 were randomly assigned to the experimental group and 15 to the control group. The quality of life questionnaires sf-36 Varosherborn (1992), Enrich Olson and Fournier (1989) Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire and Guttman (1994) Emotional Divorce were completed as a pretest by both groups. Then, the experimental group received 8 sessions of 1.5-hour schematic therapy according to the program of Young, Klasso and Wishar (2003) and the control group did not receive any program. Then post-test was performed for both groups. Data analysis based on analysis of covariance showed that treatment affects quality of life and its components except general health (physical function, role disorder due to physical health, general health, pain tolerance, vitality and vitality, role disorder due to emotional health, social function , Emotional well-being) and marital satisfaction and its components (marital satisfaction, communication, conflict resolution, ideal distortion) have a significant effect.. As a result, schema therapy can be used to improve quality of life, marital satisfaction in men with emotional divorce.
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