Effectiveness of psychological empowering on reducing anxiety and improving executive functions of women with addictive spouse

Present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of empowering on reducing anxiety and improving executive functions of women with addictive spouse. population was women with addictive spouse in Zanjan. 40 women with addictive spouse simple randomly were selected and assigned in experimental and control groups. Experimental design was pretest- posttest with control group and follow- up after 2 mouths. Baseline of anxiety and executive functions of all participants were measured. Psychological empowering was trained to experimental group in 10 sessions and anxiety and executive functions of all participants was measured in posttest and follow-up and data were analyzed using tests of covariance and t - student. Results indicated that level of anxiety of participants in empowering sessions significantly was lower than control group, but executive functions (planning, organizasion, problem solving) was more than control group (P