Effectiveness of Group Therapy using Transactional Analysis (TA) on Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Marital Intimacy of Betrayed Women

Studies shows that diminished marital intimacy is one of the main reasons of the spouse's betrayal and emotional regulation plays a key role in the marital intimacy and coping with the consequences of revealing a marital betrayal. But problem is, whether Group Therapy using Transactional Analysis (TA can improve the Emotion Regulation and Marital Intimacy of betrayed women? The purpose of the present study was to determine the efficacy of Group Therapy using Transactional Analysis (TA) on Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Marital Intimacy of women affected by marital betrayal. This study used semi-experimental method with pre-test, post-test and control group. To this end, 30 women injured by the exaggerated relations in 1397 were selected by random sampling method and assigned to two experimental and control groups. To collect the data, the Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (Gravovsky et al. , 2001) and Thompson and Walker's Marital Intimacy Questionnaire (1983) was used. The experimental group participated weekly in 10 sessions of 2 hours of group therapy. After ensuring the normal distribution of the data obtained from these questionnaires using Shapiro Wilk test, in order to analyze the research hypotheses, the covariance analysis test was used the results showed that the group therapy by means of interaction analysis Improve cognitive-emotional regulation and increase the marital intimacy of women injured by husband's betrayal (p <0/05). In general, the findings of the research indicate that the treatment group by interaction analysis method can improve the cognitive management of the excitement of women in betrayal and affect their marital empathy.