The Effectiveness of Emotional Schema Therapy Group Training on Sexual Self-Concept, Emotional Maturity and Interactive Patterns of Women with Chronic Pain

The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of emotional schema therapy group training on sexual self-concept, emotional maturity and interactive patterns of women suffering from chronic pain. The current research design was semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design along with the control group. Thirty women suffering from chronic pain who referred to Firouzgar Hospital in Tehran in 2021 were selected by available sampling method and randomly replaced into two groups of 15, experimental and control. The research tools included Snell's multifaceted sexual self-concept questionnaire (1995), Singh and Bhargava's emotional maturity questionnaire (1991), and Christensen and Salawi's interactive patterns questionnaire (1984), and the experimental group was trained in emotional schema therapy by Leahy (2015) during 10 sessions. hour, they had one session every week, and during this time, the people of the control group did not receive any intervention. To analyze the data, multivariate and univariate analysis of covariance was used by SPSS statistical software version 26. The findings showed that emotional schema therapy has a significant effect on emotional maturity and interaction patterns in women with chronic pain (P<0.01).But it has no significant effect on changes in sexual self-concept(P< 0.05).According to the results of this research, emotional schema therapy group training focusing on challenges and cognitions and creating positive and appropriate changes can be used in the changes of emotional maturity and interaction patterns between couples in women suffering from chronic pain.