The Effectiveness of Emotional Schema Therapy on Emotional Divorce and Emotional Maturity of Couples Seeking Divorce in City Babol

Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy

Soheila Hedayatimoghadam ¹ , Abolfazl Bakhshipour ²

1 - PhD student, Department of General Psychology, Bojnord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnord, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Counseling Department, Bojnord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnord, Iran.

Received: 2022-05-08 Accepted : 2022-06-20 Published : 2022-08-23

Keywords: Emotional Maturity, emotional divorce, couples seeking divorce, emotional therapy schema,

Abstract :

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of emotional therapy schema on emotional divorce and emotional maturity of couples seeking divorce. Methodology: The method of this research is semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this research was all couples seeking divorce in Babol city in 1401. The statistical sample in this research includes 30 divorce-seeking couples (15 for the control group and 15 for the experimental group) who were selected by available sampling and randomly replaced in two groups. Data collection tools were Yasvir Sink and Bhargava's emotional maturity questionnaire and Gutman's emotional divorce scale. In this research, to analyze the data from descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and from inferential statistics, following the assumptions of multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) with SPSS version 26 software. Findings: The findings of the research showed that emotional therapy schema training has an effect on emotional divorce and emotional maturity of couples seeking divorce. Conclusion: According to the obtained results, it was found that emotional schema therapy is effective on the emotional divorce of couples seeking divorce.

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