The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on forgiveness, emotional regulation, and marital intimacy of women injured with infidelity

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on the forgiveness, emotional regulation and marital intimacy of women injured with Infidelity. The research design was a quasi-experimental design using a pre-test/post-test design with a control group. The population of the study consisted of all women in Tehran who were betrayed by their spouses, and during the years 1395 and 1396, they asked for advisory services by referring to counseling centers. A sample of 20 people was selected from the judgmental and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups Psychotherapy sessions were performed during 8 sessions and at the end of both groups were retested. The instrument of this research was Ray's Forgiveness Questionnaire (1998), Gross & John's Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (2003), and Thompson & Walker's Intimacy Inventory (1983). To analyze the data, multivariate covariance analysis were used. The results of the study indicated that the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy intervention on the level of forgiveness, emotional regulation and marital intimacy of women injured with betrayal had a significant positive effect.