The effectiveness of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) on Improving Marital Satisfaction and Reduction Tendency to Extramarital Relationships Women Affected by Domestic Violence

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of emotionally focused couple therapy on improving marital satisfaction and reduction tendency to extramarital relationships women affected by domestic violence. The research design was based on a semi-experimental with pre-test-post-test approach and control group. The statistical population consisted of all women affected by domestic violence in Mashhad cities in 2018. Among them, 30 people have been selected in Convenience Sampling and randomly being assigned into two experimental and controls groups. The experimental group received an emotional couple therapy program in 8 sessions of 60 minutes for one month and, the control group didn't receive the intervention. Enrich Marital Satisfaction Scale (Olson, 1989), and Extramarital Relationships Questionnaire (ERQ) (Shirdel, 2007) were used in the pretest and posttest for collecting information. Data were analyzed using multivariable analysis of variance. The results of the research showed that after controlling the effect of pre-test, there was a significant difference between the two groups in the post-test in marital satisfaction and reduction tendency to extramarital relationships. According to the findings of the research, it can be stated that emotionally focused couple therapy to increase satisfaction and reduced tendency to extramarital relationships women affected by domestic violence. Therefore, emotionally concentrated couple therapy can be considered an excellent way to improve couples' conflicts and sexual problems.