The Effectiveness of Emotional Therapy on Agreeableness and Emotional Balance of Women with Emotional Divorce

Emotional divorce is a type of divorce that is not registered anywhere and is related to families who decide for reasons such as negative attitudes, false beliefs, sick mind, stress and worry, inability to meet the needs of life. They are forced to live under one roof. The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of emotion-oriented therapy on agreeableness and emotional balance of women with emotional divorce.

This research was conducted using a semi-experimental method and a pre-test-post-test research design with a control group. The statistical population of the research consisted of 100 women with emotional divorce in 2023 at Neday Mehrgan Counseling Center in Rasht, out of which a sample of 30 people was selected by purposive sampling and randomly in the intervention group. (15 people) and control (15 people) were placed. Emotional divorce (Gottman, 2008), emotional balance (Diener and et al 2010) and agreeableness (McCrae and et al 2005) questionnaires were used to collect data. The intervention group underwent 8 sessions of emotional therapy (Greenberg and Johnson, 1988), while the control group did not receive any training. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance.

The results showed that emotional therapy was effective in increasing the agreeableness of women with emotional divorce (p<0.001). Also, the results showed that emotional therapy was effective in increasing the emotional balance of women with emotional divorce (p<0.001).

The findings of the present study showed that the use of emotion-oriented treatment content and instructions is useful in increasing agreeableness and emotional balance of women with emotional divorce. Therefore, the use of this therapeutic intervention is recommended.