The Effectiveness of Hold‐Me‐Tight Relationship‐Education Program on Rumination and Psychological Symptoms of Women Affected by Marital Infidelity

Subject Areas : Psychology of couples

Zahra Jamshidi Boorkhani ¹ , Saeid Imani ² , Alireza Jafari ³ , Mohammad Ghamari ⁴

1 - Ph.D student, Department of Counseling, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - (Corresponding author), Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid BeheshtiUniversity, Tehran, Iran. [e-mail] Tel: [phone]
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Abhar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abhar, Iran.
4 - Department of Counseling, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2024-07-01 Accepted : 2024-09-16 Published : 2025-04-12

Keywords: hold‐me‐tight relationship‐education program, marital infidelity, psychological symptoms, rumination,

Abstract :

Abstract

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to effectiveness of hold‐me‐tight relationship‐education program on rumination and psychological symptoms of women affected by marital infidelity. Research Methods: This semi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group and follow-up 2 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 1 experimental group (15 women) and 1 control group (15 women) were replaced and experimental group underwent hold‐me‐tight relationship‐education program (8 sessions 90 minutes). To collect data ruminative response scale (RRS) of Nolen-Hoeksema & Morrow and symptom checklist- 25 (SCL-25) of Najarian & Dawoodi Analysis of variance with repeated measures with SPSS software was used for data analysis. Results: The results showed that intervention had a significant effect on rumination and psychological symptoms (P<0.05). Conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, it can be said that hold‐me‐tight relationship‐education program can be used as a treatment method to on rumination and psychological symptoms among women affected by marital infidelity.

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