The Effectiveness of Emotion Focused Therapy on Cognitive Fusion and Emotional Self-Regulation of Spouses of Veterans

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PhD student in Clinical Psychology, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran.

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate The effectiveness of emotion focused therapy on cognitive fusion and emotional self-regulation of spouses of veterans. The present study was semi experimental (with experimental and control groups) with three-stage (pretest, posttest, follow-up) and two-month follow-up period design. In this research, the statistical population was formed by the spouses of neurology and psychiatry veterans who referred to the Shahid Counseling Center (under the supervision of the Martyr and Veteran Affairs Foundation) in Mashhad in the summer and fall of 2022. 51 spouses of veterans were selected through Voluntary sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental (26 women) and control groups (25 women). The experimental group received ten ninty-minute sessions of emotion focused therapy during eight weeks. The applied questionnaires included cognitive fusion questionnaire (Gillanders et al, 2010) (CFQ) and emotional self-regulation questionnaire (Gross, John, 2003) (ESRQ). The data from the study were analyzed through mixed ANOVA method via SPSS23 software. The results showed that emotion focused therapy has significant effect on the cognitive fusion (F=76.34; Eta=0.61; P<0/001) and emotional self-regulation (F=49. 07; Eta=0. 50; P<0/001) of the spouses of veterans. According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that emotion focused therapy can be used as an efficient method to deceace cognitive fusion and improve emotional self-regulation of spouses of veterans through applying the Conceptualizing emotional awareness and introducing the methods of achieving it, creating emotional change and creating confrontational self-soothing excitement.

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  • Receive Date: 09 April 2023
  • Revise Date: 26 April 2023
  • Accept Date: 13 May 2023

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