Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Mood Swings and Emotional Expression of Couples with Marital Conflict
Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy
Maryam Aghazade
1
,
saeed Najarpour Ostadi
2
1 - 1. Master of Family Counseling, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran.
2 - 2. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran
Keywords: Emotional expression, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mood Swings,
Abstract :
Purpose: the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on mood swings and emotional expression of couples with marital Conflict.
Methodology: The present study was a semi-experimental type of pre-test post-test with the control group. The statistical community of this study was made up of all couples with marital Conflict visiting counseling and Family Therapy Clinics in faramehr, the path of tranquility and yasham in Tabriz. The sample of the study consisted of 30 couples with marital Conflict who were selected from among the statistical community by targeted sampling, taking into account the acceptance of people to participate in the study and having entry criteria. The king and Ammons emotional expression questionnaires (1990) and the positive and negative emotion of Watson et al. (1988) were used to collect data. The data was analyzed by the multivariate variance analysis test (MANCOVA) in version 24 of the SPSS statistical software.
Findings: The Results showed that there is a significant difference between the post-test scores of mood swings and emotional expressiveness. The effectiveness of treatment based on acceptance and commitment has caused a decrease in the average negative emotion component and an increase in the positive emotion component of the intervention group and an increase in the average scores of the subjects in emotional expressiveness (P>0.01).
Conclusion: Treatment based on acceptance and commitment has a significant effect on mood swings and emotional expression; Therefore, it is possible to reduce the mood swings and increase the expressiveness of emotions through treatment based on acceptance and commitment.
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