Vida Azari; Kobra Kazemian Moghadam; Mahnaz Mehrabizadeh Honarmand
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Divorce is a risk factor for many forms of dysfunction and psychological pathology in families. Silencing Self and the inability to establish emotional intimacy between couples can lead to problems and the demand for divorce. The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of compassion-focused ...
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Divorce is a risk factor for many forms of dysfunction and psychological pathology in families. Silencing Self and the inability to establish emotional intimacy between couples can lead to problems and the demand for divorce. The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of compassion-focused therapy on silencing the self-repression and emotional intimacy in divorce seeking women. It was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest, posttest, and control group design. The statistical population of the study included all seeking divorce women in Behbahan in 2020. The samples of this study consisted of 30 divorce seeking women (15 experimental and 15 control groups) who were selected through available sampling and according to inclusion criteria. The experimental group received eight ninety-minute sessions during two months while the control group didn’t receive this intervention during conducting the study. The questionnaires in the study included The Silencing the Self Scale (STSS) and the Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationships (PAIR). The results showed that compassion-focused therapy has been effective in Silencing the self and emotional intimacy. According to the findings of the present study, compassion-focused therapy can be suggested as an efficient method to increase emotional intimacy and decrease Silencing the self in divorce seeking women
Kobra Kazemian Moghaddam; Mahnaz Mehrabizadeh Honarmand; Alireza Kiamanesh; Simin Hosseiniyan
Volume 3, Issue 2 , March 2017, , Pages 71-82
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Abstract: The failure of couples in resolving marital problems could be expressed in various forms so that each of them can be a threat to the health of marital relationship. One common type of marital discord is marital dissatisfaction, which is affected by many factors, including lack of differentiation, ...
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Abstract: The failure of couples in resolving marital problems could be expressed in various forms so that each of them can be a threat to the health of marital relationship. One common type of marital discord is marital dissatisfaction, which is affected by many factors, including lack of differentiation, forgiveness and meaningfulness in life. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of differentiation, life meaningfulness and forgiveness in predicting marital satisfaction among married female students of Islamic Azad University of Dezful. For this purpose, a sample of 256 married female students was selected. Four types of instruments were used: Skowron’s revised Differentiation of Self Questionnaire (DSI-R), the Life-Regard Index (LRI), the Forgiveness scale (FS), and Enrich Couple Scales (ECS). The results showed that a significant positive relationship existed between differentiation, life meaningfulness, and forgiveness and marital satisfaction. Results also showed that differentiation, meaningfulness in life, and forgiveness had a important role in explaining and predicting the variance of marital satisfaction.
