The effect of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) on attachment styles in women with marital conflicts

The family is the most basic social institution in terms of age, and in terms of its scope, it is the most universal social institution, this shows that forming a family is one of the most basic and natural human needs. The first step to satisfy this basic and natural need is marriage. Despite the pleasantness of the marriage bond, the satisfaction of the couple is not easily achieved, and as a result, the strongest human bond, marriage, in its strongest base, the family system, may be in serious danger.

The present study is a randomized controlled trial using a pre-test-post-test design with a control group having the usual care of a standard study. The statistical population of the current study was made up of all women with marital conflicts who referred to counseling centers in Tehran in 2011. In this research, two adult attachment scales, the Kansas Marital Conflict Scale were used to collect data. Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (multivariate analysis of variance) and spss-19 statistical software were used to analyze the data. became.

In the first part, the descriptive findings of the research were mentioned, and in the second part, the research findings were mentioned from the perspective of inferential statistics. Here, the variables of secure, avoidant and ambivalent attachment styles were used. In an inferential finding, the normality of data distribution is one of the most important presuppositions of all parametric tests such as covariance analysis. The Shapiro-Wilk test was used to check the normality of the distribution of the variables in the pre-test and post-test.

The results of the present study showed that intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy of attachment styles is effective in women with marital conflicts.