The effectiveness of schema therapy on perfectionism and dysfunctional attitudes of women with marital conflict with primary incompatible schemas

The present study was conducted aiming to investigate the effectiveness of schema therapy on the Perfectionism and inefficient attitudes of the women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemata.

it was a quasiexperimental 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 ninetyminute 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 Perfectionism (Hill, et al., 2004), inefficient attitudes scale (Wiseman and Back, 1978), 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 Perfectionism and inefficient attitudes of the women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemata (p<0.001). In this way, this treatment has been able to reduce Perfectionism and inefficient attitudes of the women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemata.

According to the findings of the study it can be concluded that Schema therapy can be used to reduce perfectionism and inefficient attitudes of women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemas.