اثربخشی رویکرد زوج‌درمانی هیجان‌مدار بر بهبود دلزدگی زناشویی و خودافشایی هیجانی زوجین متقاضی طلاق

زمینه و هدف: طلاق یکی از آسیب‌های اجتماعی و خانوادگی است که تمامی اقشار جامعه به‌نوعی با عوارض سوء آن درگیر هستند. پژوهش حاضر با هدف تعیین اثربخشی رویکرد زوج‌درمانی هیجان‌مدار بر بهبود دلزدگی زناشویی و خودافشایی هیجانی زوجین متقاضی طلاق انجام شد.روش‌بررسی: روش پژوهش از نوع نیمه‌آزمایشی با طرح پیش‌آزمون-پس‌آزمون همراه با گروه گواه بود. جامعهٔ آماری پژوهش را تمامی زوجین متقاضی طلاق مراجعه‌کننده به کلینیک مرهم شهرستان ساری در نیمهٔ دوم سال 1396 تشکیل دادند. از بین آن‌ها تعداد 32 نفر افراد واجد شرایط داوطلب انتخاب شدند و سپس به‌طور تصادفی در دو گروه آزمایش و گواه قرار گرفتند. گروه آزمایش طی دوازده جلسهٔ نوددقیقه‌ای به‌صورت هفتگی به‌ترتیب، زوج‌درمانی هیجان‌مدار را دریافت کرد؛ اما برای گروه گواه، درمانی ارائه نشد. داده‌ها با استفاده از مقیاس دلزدگی زناشویی (پاینز، 1996) و مقیاس خودافشایی هیجانی (اسنل، 2001) جمع‌آوری شدند. تحلیل داده‌ها با استفاده از روش‌ تحلیل کوواریانس تک‌متغیره در نرم‌افزار spss نسخهٔ 22 در سطح معناداری 0٫05 صورت گرفت. یافته‌ها: نتایج نشان داد، زوج‌درمانی هیجان‌مدار منجربه کاهش دلزدگی زناشویی (0٫001>p) و افزایش خودافشایی هیجانی (0٫001>p) در زوجین متقاضی طلاق در گروه آزمایش شد. نتیجه‌گیری: براساس یافته‌های این پژوهش، آموزش رویکرد زوج‌درمانی هیجان‌مدار در بهبود دلزدگی زناشویی و خودافشایی هیجانی زوجین متقاضی طلاق موثر است و می‌توان از رویکرد مذکور برای بهبود دلزدگی زناشویی و خودافشایی هیجانی این زوجین استفاده کرد.

the effectiveness of emotion-focused couple therapy approach on improving marital burnout and emotional self-disclosure of couples applying for divorce

background & objectives: divorce is one of the social and family harms that all sections of society are somehow involved in its adverse effects. divorced people face several individual and interpersonal conflicts, such as experiencing turbulent identities, hopelessness, lifestyle changes, and serious social and occupational problems. one of the important variables in marital relationships is marital burnout. marital burnout is a painful condition of physical, emotional, and psychological exhaustion that affects those who expect dreamy love and marriage to give meaning to their lives. emotional self–disclosure is the process by which we share information about ourselves with others. one of the effective therapeutic approaches in solving couples’ marital problems is the emotion–oriented therapeutic approach that its emphasis is on the method of adaptive attachments, through care, support, and mutual attention for the needs of self and spouse. this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of emotion–focused couple therapy to improve marital burnout and emotional self–disclosure of couples applying for divorce.methods: the method of this study was quasi–experimental with a pretest–posttest design with a control group. the statistical population included all couples applying for divorce referring to the marham clinic of sari city, iran from september 2017 to march 2018, from whom 32 people were qualified individuals and then randomly divided into experimental and control groups. the inclusion criteria were as follows: couples applying for divorce who were referred to the marham clinic in sari from september 2017 to march 2018, age range of 25 to 45 years, having more education than a diploma, not suffering from chronic physical diseases, not suffering from chronic mental illnesses, not taking medicines to cause interference in the treatment process, not having addiction, having average economic status. the exclusion criteria were the non–cooperation of the couples during the study, suffering from physical and mental illness during the study, absence of more than two sessions from the treatment process and giving up on the termination of the joint life.the experimental group underwent an emotion–focused couple therapy one 90–min session per week for 12 weeks, but the control group did not receive treatment. data were obtained using the marital burnout scale (pines, 1996) and the emotional self–disclosure scale (snell, 2001). data analysis was done using descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics using univariate covariance analysis and spss version 22 software. the significance level of the tests was considered 0.05. results: the findings showed that emotion–focused couple therapy was effective in decreasing marital burnout (p<0.001) and increasing emotional self–disclosure (p<0.001) in the experimental group. the eta squared of the intervention on reducing marital burnout and increasing emotional self–disclosure was obtained as 0.77 and 0.68, respectively. conclusion: according to findings, emotion–focused couple therapy is effective in improving marital burnout and emotional self–disclosure of couples applying for divorce and can be used to improve marital burnout and emotional self–disclosure in these couples.