The effectiveness of emotional schema therapy on emotional regulation problems and marital satisfaction of maladaptive women of the first decade of life

Many studies have investigated the efficacy of emotional schema therapy on marital problems of couples and the problems of emotional adjustment and marital satisfaction of couples. But research investigating the efficacy of emotional schema therapy on the problems of emotion regulation and marital satisfaction in maladaptive women of the first decade of life has been neglected.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of emotional schema therapy on emotional regulation problems and marital satisfaction of maladaptive women in the first decade of life.

This study was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population consisted of all women with marital maladjustment referred to counseling and psychological services in Andisheh in 2018. Thirty individuals were selected by purposive sampling method and were randomly divided into two groups of control and experimental (n = 15). Research tools include: Enrich Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire (Ellison, 1998), Ernst J. DQ Disability Questionnaire. Beerless and Daniel P. Sternberg (1977), Grazchr('39')s Emotion Regulation Disorders Questionnaire (2004), and Lehi et al. (2015, 2019) training package for Emotional Schema Therapy. Data were analyzed using single and multivariate analysis of covariance.

Emotional schema therapy increased the mean scores of marital satisfaction in the schema therapy group and increased the mean score of emotional regulation in the schema therapy group (P< 0/001).

Emotional schema therapy increased marital satisfaction and emotion regulation and its components in couples.