Effectiveness of Psychodrama Therapy on Fear of Intimacy, Rumination and Psychological Symptoms of Women Affected by Marital Infidelity

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1 PhD student, Department of Counseling, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Counseling, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

3 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Abhar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abhar, Iran

4 Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities, Abhar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abhar, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to effectiveness of psychodrama therapy on fear of intimacy, rumination and psychological symptoms of women affected by marital infidelity. This semi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group and follow-up two month. The statistical population was all the women affected by marital infidelity who referred to counseling centers in the 1st district of Tehran city in year 2022. In the first stage, using convenience sampling method, 30 women were selected and then randomly divided into one experimental group (15 women) and one control group (15 women) were replaced and experimental group underwent psychodrama therapy (10 sessions 90 minutes). To collect data fear of intimacy scale (FIS) of Descutner & Thelen (1991), ruminative response scale (RRS) of Nolen-Hoeksema & Morrow (1991) and symptom checklist- 25 (SCL-25) of Najarian & Dawoodi (2001) Analysis of variance with repeated measures with SPSS software was used for data analysis. The results showed that intervention psychodrama therapy had a significant effect on fear of intimacy, rumination and psychological symptoms (P<0.05). Based on the results of the present study, it can be said that psychodrama therapy can be used as a treatment method to on fear of intimacy, rumination and psychological symptoms among women affected by marital infidelity.

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  • Receive Date: 12 October 2024
  • Revise Date: 09 December 2024
  • Accept Date: 16 December 2024

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