Comparing the Effectiveness of Self-Differentiation and Really Therapy Training on Intimacy, Compatibility and Assertiveness of Married Women

Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy

Mehrdad Sasani ¹ , Ghorban Fathi Aghdam ² , Masuod Rezazadeh ³

1 - Teacher of Mizan Tabriz University
2 - Assistant Professor,Department of Psychology, Abhar Branch , Islamic Azad University, Abhar, Iran
3 - Master of Family Counseling

Received: 2020-05-30 Accepted : 2020-07-08 Published : 2020-08-22

Keywords: assertiveness, Adaptation, self-differentiation, intimacy, reality therapy,

Abstract :

Purpose: The present study aimed to compare the efficacy of self-differentiation and the reality therapy training on the intimacy و adaptation and assertiveness of the married women. Methodology: The research method was semi-experimental using a pre-test,post-test and follow up design with a control group.The community of society was all married women whose terms of marriage were under 5 years and their age were between 20 and 40 years in Tabriz city.A sample of 45 married women was selected available method and randomly assigned to two groups of experiments, a group for the treatment of reality therapy and a group for self-differentiation training (each group was 15) and a control group (15 people). To collect the data, the pre-test and post-test stages, Marital intimacy questionnaire (Bagarozzi, 2001), adaptation questionnaire (Spanier,1976) and assertiveness questionnaire (Gambbridge & Richie, 1975), were used. The data were analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance. Findings: The result showed that the self-differentiation and the reality therapy training is effective on the intimacy and adaptation and assertiveness of the married women. Also, based on the result, there is no significant difference between the efficacy of self-differentiation and the reality therapy on the intimacy and adaptation and assertive of the married women. Conclusion: According to the results of the study, it can be stated that for those who have little intimacy, compatibility, and self-expression, use self-differentiation and reality therapy as a treatment.