Investigation the effectiveness of support group therapy by reality therapy approach on emotional control of divorced women victims of domestic violence

Subject Areas : social psychology

Sara  Monsefi ¹ (PhD Student, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Sciences and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran)
Hasan  Ahadi ² (Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Sciences and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran)
Hamidreza  Hatami ³ (Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Imam Hossein Comprehensive University, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2019-09-24 Accepted : 2020-02-06 Published : 2020-01-21

Keywords: reality therapy, support group therapy, divorced women, emotional control, domestic violence,

Abstract :

This research aimed to investigation the effectiveness of support group therapy by reality therapy approach on emotional control of divorced women victims of domestic violence. Present study was a semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The research population was divorced women victims of domestic violence of Tehran city in 2018 year. The research sample was 30 people that were selected by available sampling method and assigned into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group trained 10 of 80 minutes sessions (two sessions per week) and the control group received no training. Data collected with the Roger and Najjarian's revised emotional control questionnaires (1989) and analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance method with SPSS version-22 software. The results showed that support group therapy by reality therapy approach significantly improved emotional inhibition, rumination or rehearsal and benign control of divorced women victims of domestic violence, but there was no significant effect on the their aggression control (P<0/05). Regarding to the results, for improve the emotional control of divorced women victims of domestic violence can be used from the method of support group therapy by reality therapy approach.