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Volume 24, Issue 148 (6-2025)
Journal of Psychological Science 2025, 24(148): 137-152 |
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Pourrahimi J, Zeinali A, Shaker Dioulagh A. (2025). Effectiveness of emotion-oriented couple therapy on marital burnout and dysfunctional attitudes in couples with emotional divorce conditions. Journal of Psychological Science. 24(148), 137-152.
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Department of Psychology, Khoy Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khoy, Iran , zeinali@iaukhoy.ac.ir
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Background: Couples suffering from emotional divorce have many problems in their married life, including increased marital burnout and dysfunctional attitudes, and is necessary to use effective treatment approaches such as couple therapy to reduce their problems.
Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of emotion-oriented couple therapy on marital burnout and dysfunctional attitudes in couples with emotional divorce conditions.
Methods: The present research was a semi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test and follow-up design with a control group. The statistical population of this research were include couples with emotional divorce referred to counseling centers of Rasht city in 2023 year, which from them 20 couples (40 people) were selected as a sample with the purposeful sampling method and by simple random with the help of a lottery replaced into two equal experimental and control groups. The experimental group underwent 9 sessions of 90 minute (one session a week) by emotion-oriented couple therapy (Johnson, 2019), and the control group remained on the waiting list for training. The data were collected with the emotional divorce questionnaire (Gottman, 1994), marital burnout questionnaire (Pines, 1996) and dysfunctional attitudes scale (Weissman and Beck, 1978) and were analyzed by statistical tests of analysis of variance with repeated measurement and post hoc Bonferroni in SPSS-23 software.
Results: The results showed that emotion-oriented couple therapy significantly reduced marital burnout and dysfunctional attitudes in couples with emotional divorce conditions, and these results were maintained in the follow-up phase (P<0.001) and 44% change in marital burnout and 37% change in dysfunctional attitudes was the result of emotion-oriented couple therapy.
Conclusion: Considering to the results of this research, counselors and therapists can benefit emotion-oriented couple therapy along with other treatment methods to improve psychological characteristics, especially reducing marital burnout and dysfunctional attitudes of couples with emotional divorce.
Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of emotion-oriented couple therapy on marital burnout and dysfunctional attitudes in couples with emotional divorce conditions.
Methods: The present research was a semi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test and follow-up design with a control group. The statistical population of this research were include couples with emotional divorce referred to counseling centers of Rasht city in 2023 year, which from them 20 couples (40 people) were selected as a sample with the purposeful sampling method and by simple random with the help of a lottery replaced into two equal experimental and control groups. The experimental group underwent 9 sessions of 90 minute (one session a week) by emotion-oriented couple therapy (Johnson, 2019), and the control group remained on the waiting list for training. The data were collected with the emotional divorce questionnaire (Gottman, 1994), marital burnout questionnaire (Pines, 1996) and dysfunctional attitudes scale (Weissman and Beck, 1978) and were analyzed by statistical tests of analysis of variance with repeated measurement and post hoc Bonferroni in SPSS-23 software.
Results: The results showed that emotion-oriented couple therapy significantly reduced marital burnout and dysfunctional attitudes in couples with emotional divorce conditions, and these results were maintained in the follow-up phase (P<0.001) and 44% change in marital burnout and 37% change in dysfunctional attitudes was the result of emotion-oriented couple therapy.
Conclusion: Considering to the results of this research, counselors and therapists can benefit emotion-oriented couple therapy along with other treatment methods to improve psychological characteristics, especially reducing marital burnout and dysfunctional attitudes of couples with emotional divorce.
Keywords: emotion-oriented couple therapy, marital burnout, dysfunctional attitudes, emotional divorce
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