Effectiveness of self- compassion therapy on loneliness and emotion regulation of damaged women from marital infidelity

Subject Areas : Educational

Zahra Dashtbozorgi ¹

1 - Department of Psychology, Ahvaz branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

Received: 2016-06-07 Accepted : 2017-10-16 Published : 2018-02-20

Keywords: self- compassion therapy, damaged women from Infidelity marital infidelity, loneliness, emotion regulation,

Abstract :

The aim of this research was to study the effect of self- compassion therapy on loneliness and emotion regulation of damaged women from marital infidelity in Ahvaz. This research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest and control group with an half and a month flow up. The sample included 20 damaged women (10 women in group control and 10 women in group experimental) they were selected by available method. They were requested to answer loneliness scale Dahshiry,Borjali, Shaykh, Habiby,1378) and emotion regulation scale (Garnefski & Karaaij, Spinhoven, 2002). For analyzing the results, we used covariance (MANCOVA). The results of data analysis showed that self- compassion therapy caused the decrease of loneliness and the increase emotion regulation of experimental group of women in comparison to the witness groups and result after one month was permanent (p<0.01)

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