rozita tanbakouchian

Aim and Background:

Research has shown that resilience and self-control are associated with marital boredom; In this regard, various therapeutic approaches have been used by researchers; therefore, this study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of emotion-focused and schema therapy approaches on ambiguity resilience, and self-control of women with marital burnout.

Methods and Materials:

The research method was applied in terms of purpose and quasi-experimental in terms of implementation method with pretest-posttest design of two experimental groups and a control group with follow-up test. From the community of women suffering from marital burnout in district three of tehran, 45 people were selected by the convenient sampling method and were replaced in three groups using the random method. Ambiguity resilience questionnaire (Freison et al., 1994) and self-control questionnaire (Gramisk et al., 1993) were used. Research data were analyzed by ANOVA using repeated measures and bonferroni's post hoc test.

Findings showed that both emotion-focused and schema therapy approaches have a significant and lasting effect on increasing the resilience of ambiguity and self-control of women with marital burnout (p=0.001). Also, the result of comparing the two approaches showed that the effect of schema therapy approach on self-control of women with marital burnout is more than the emotion-focused approach (p=0.001). But the difference between the two approaches on the resilience of ambiguity was not significant.

According to the obtained results, it seems that the use of both schema therapy and emotion-focused approaches to improve self-control and resilience of ambiguity in women with marital burnout is effective and it is recommended to be used as therapeutic approaches.

The aim of this study was to determine and compare the effectiveness of emotion-oriented therapy and group schema therapy on attachment styles (secure, avoidant and ambivalent) of women with marital burnout at ddistrict 3 of Tehran .45 female of the mentioned population were selected via purposive sampling method and randomly assigned in two experimental and one control groups. The research was quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test and follow-up test. Hazen and Shiver (1987) Attachment Styles Questionnaire was implemented to collect data. Both treatment methods were conducted for 8 session 90 minutes each. Research data were analyzed using multi variables analysis of covariance, one way analysis of covariance and Bonferroni post hoc test. Findings showed that both oriented-focused and group schema therapy were effective on secure, avoidant and ambivalent attachment styles. The results of comparing the two therapies also showed that the emotion-oriented therapy was more effective on attachment styles of women with marital burn out than group schema therapy.