Effectiveness of Schema Therapy on The Irrational Beliefs and Emotional Self-Regulation of the Women with Marital Conflict with Early Maladaptive Schemata

The present study was conducted aiming to investigate the effectiveness of schema therapy on the irrational beliefs and emotional self-regulation of the women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemata. it was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group design and a two-month follow-up stage. The statistical population of the study included the women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemata who referred to consultation centers in the city of Tehran in the autumn and winter of 2019-2012. 40 women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemata were selected through purposive sampling method and they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 20). The experimental group received the schema therapy in ten ninety-minute sessions during two months. 4 people from the experimental group were excluded from the study and so were 3 people from the control group. The applied questionnaires in this study included irrational beliefs questionnaire (Jones, 1969), emotional self-regulation questionnaire (Gross, John, 2003), marital conflict (Barati and Sanaie, 1997) and early maladaptive (Yang, 1998). The data from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement ANOVA. The results showed that schema therapy has significant effect on the irrational beliefs and emotional self-regulation of the women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemata (p<0.001). In this way, this treatment has been able to reduce irrational beliefs and increase emotional self-regulation of the women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemata.