The Effectiveness of Spiritual-Religious Interventions in Emotions, Resentment and Forgiveness in Women with Experience of Emotional Abuse by the Spouse

Emotional abuse by the husband can cause emotional distress and wife hatred of the husband. Therefore, this study attempted to evaluate the effectiveness of spiritual-religious interventions on emotions, resentment and forgiveness in women with experience of emotional abuse by the spouse.

This is a cuasi experimental study with a pretest-posttest control group design. The statistical population consisted of all women with experience of emotional abuse in Bandar Abbas in 2019. The sample studied included 28 women selected through convenience sampling method, who were divided randomly into two groups-training and control. The experimental group received spiritual-religious interventions. For collection data Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS), The Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) and Positive Psychological States Questionnaire (PPSQ) were used. In this study, all ethical considerations were observed and no conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

The results showed that spiritual-religious interventions have a significant effect on the improvement of positive emotions (F=29.43, P<0.05), negative emotions (F=4.84, P<0.05), resentment (F=12.57, P<0.05) and forgiveness (F=51.66, P<0.05) in women with the experience of emotional abuse by the spouse.

According to the findings, spiritual-religious interventions can be used as an effective therapeutic and educational method to improve emotions, resentment and forgiveness in women with experience of emotional abuse by the spouse.