نشریه تعالی مشاوره و روان درمانی
پیاپی 43 (پاییز 1401)

One of the consequences of marital problems is emotional divorce, and based on the purpose of this research was predicting emotional divorce based on early maladaptive schemas in couples with marital problems. This was study was descriptive from type of correlational which its statistical population was couples with marital problems referred to counseling centers of Babol township with number of 436 people (218 couples). The research sample based on Krejcie and Morgan table was estimated 204 people (102 couples) who were selected after reviewing the inclusion criteria by purposive non-random sampling method. The research instruments were included the emotional divorce scale (Gottman, 1994) and early maladaptive schemas scale (Young, 1994). Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression in SPSS software. Findings showed that the whole of early maladaptive schema and three schemas including disconnection and rejection, other directedness and over vigilance had a positive and significant relationship with emotional divorce in couples with marital problems (P˂0.05), but two schemas including impaired autonomy and impaired limitations had not significantly relationship with emotional divorce in them (P>0.05). Other findings showed that early maladaptive schemas significantly could predict 36.8% of the changes of emotional divorce in couples with marital problems and three schemas of disconnection and rejection, other directedness and over vigilance significantly could predict 88.5% of the changes of emotional divorce in them (P˂0.001). According to the findings of the present study, the planning by health professionals and therapists to reduce emotional divorce in couples with marital problems is necessary by reducing the early maladaptive schemas, especially the three schemes of disconnection and rejection, other directedness and over vigilance.

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of FRIENDS psychological training, short-term solution-oriented therapy, and aerobic exercise (FitnessGram) on students’ communication skill. 

The present study was quasi-experimental research with pretest and posttest-follow-up stages and control group. The statistical population of this study included all adolescents aged 13 to 15 years old in the first grade of Tehran State High School in Kahrizak Education District in the academic year of 2019-2020. Forty students were selected as our sample with non-convenience sampling method utilizing G*Power software. The subjects were assigned randomly into 3 intervention groups and control group. First experimental group trained by the researcher for nine 60-minute group sessions of FRIENDS program; SFBT intervention implemented based on Gutterman advanced techniques for Solution-Focused Counseling Protocol in eight 90-minute group sessions; and the last experiment group trained in FitnessGram exercises nine-60 minutes sessions in three weeks. Barton communication questionnaire used to gather research data.

Recruited data analyzed by MANOVA. Results showed a significant difference between the intervention groups in terms of communication skills in the pretest-posttest on feedback, verbal, and auditory subscales (p<0.009), (p<0.006),  (p<0.001) respectively; Also in pretest and follow-up stage, feedback subscale (p<0.008) and auditory subscale (p<0.002) showed a significant difference between the intervention groups.

Findings indicated that students could benefit psychoeducations in academic settings in order to improve their communication skills.

The tendency to extramarital relationships is most critical issues for couples and it seems that marital relationships are formed based on attachment and emotion and regulate it is integral part of this relationship. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation in the relationship between attachment styles and emotional literacy with a tendency to extramarital relationships.

The research method was correlational. The statistical population included a population of approximately 10,000 women with experience of infidelity of husbands who in 2019 referred to the family court and counseling centers and psychological services in Tehran. According to Morgan and krejcie table, 373 people were selected by cluster sampling. The research tools were; attitudes toward infidelity scale of Whatley (2008), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire of Garnfsky et al (2001), Emotional literacy subscale from the scale of psychological functions of Iranian family of Kimiaei et al. (2012) and Adult Attachment Questionnaire of Hazan and Shawar (1987). Data analysis was performed using structural equations and SPSS-25 and Amos-24 software.

The research model had a good fit. The direct effect of attachment styles was significant on the tendency to extrasensory relationships (P<0.01). Was significant indirect effect of attachment styles and emotional literacy mediated by negative emotion regulation and the indirect effect of avoidant attachment mediated by positive emotion regulation on the tendency to extramarital relationships (P<0.05).

Increasing cognitive emotion regulation based on attachment and emotional literacy can be way to reduce tendency to extramarital relationships.

Covid-19 disease has many psychological consequences, such as parental burnout and child abuse, In addition to physical injuries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Pennsylvania resilience-based intervention on parental burnout and child abuse caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in mothers of elementary school students.

The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test with control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of mothers of first grade students in Ardakan city in the academic year 2020-2021. 30 people were selected by voluntary sampling method based on inclusion criteria and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The instruments of this study included the Parental Burnout Scale (Rosecom et al., 2018) and Child Abuse (Hosseinkhani et al., 2013). The Pennsylvania resuscitation program was presented to the experimental group on a weekly basis for twelve 1.5-hour sessions, and the control group did not receive training. The data were analyzed using chi-square and multivariate analysis of covariance in SPSS26 statistical software.

The results showed that there was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of demographic variables of age and education (p<0.05). Other results showed that the Pennsylvania Resiliency Program was effective in reducing the scores of parental burnout (p<0.001, F= 27.168) and child abuse (p<0.001, F= 37.466) Caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in mothers of primary school students.

The Pennsylvania resiliency program to be used as an effective intervention to reduce parental burnout and child abuse caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in the mothers of elementary school students, along with other educational and therapeutic methods.

Predicting Marital Infidelity based on Behavioral Inhibition and Activation Systems and Couples' Communication Patterns The current research was conducted with the purpose of marital infidelity based on behavioral inhibition and activation systems and couples' communication patterns. The present research method was descriptive, correlational. The statistical population studied in this research was married undergraduate and graduate students of Tehran University. Among them, based on Green's (1992) sample size formula, 248 people who met the criteria for entering the research were selected by simple random sampling. The research data was collected through Mark Watley's (2006) betrayal attitude questionnaire, Carver and White's behavioral brain systems questionnaire (1994) and Ritchie and Fitzpatrick's communication patterns questionnaire (1994) and simultaneous regression was used to examine the hypotheses and analyze the data. Examining the research results showed that marital infidelity has a negative and meaningful relationship with the behavioral inhibition system and a positive and meaningful relationship with the behavioral activation system. (p = 0.01). The correlation of marital infidelity with the orientation of dialogue and listening is negative and with the orientation of conformity is positive and significant (p=0.01). Also, the behavioral activation system has a greater unique contribution in predicting marital infidelity. Based on the obtained results, marital infidelity can be predicted based on brain behavioral systems and couples' communication patterns in married students.

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of art-play therapy and mindfulness training on the self-esteem of male students of the sixth year of elementary school.

This research was conducted with a semi-experimental method with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the research included male students of the sixth year of elementary school in Bukan city in the academic year of 2019-2019. The sampling method in the present study was a multi-stage random method. First, three elementary schools in Bukan city were selected by random sampling method, and one class was randomly selected from the sixth classes of each school. Then, 45 students were selected and randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group (15 people in each group). The experimental groups were trained in two different intervention programs, art-play therapy and mindfulness training. Self-Esteem Questionnaire (SEI) was used as a research tool for pre-test and post-test. For data analysis, statistical methods of multivariate covariance analysis and Benferroni's pairwise comparisons test were used.

The results of data analysis showed that there is a significant difference between the experimental groups and the control group in terms of the self-esteem variable in the post-test stage (P≤.05). Other results of the research showed that there is no significant difference between mindfulness training and art-play therapy between the two groups, and the effectiveness of both interventions was the same.

Based on the findings, mindfulness training and play therapy as effective intervention methods in the growth and improvement of the self-esteem of elementary school children can be used by teachers and educators.

Employment can affect on gender role schemas. The present study was conducted with the aim of comparison the gender role schemas of women working in political and non-political executive organizations.

This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was comparative. The research population was women working in political and non-political executive organizations of Mashhad city in 2019 year. The sample consisted of 114 women working in political organizations who were selected by census sampling method and 384 women working in non-political organizations who were selected by cluster sampling method. The research instrument was a short form of gender role schema inventory (Bem, 1981) whose validity was confirmed by experts' opinion and its total reliability was obtained 0.86 by Cronbach's alpha method. Data were analyzed by tests of Chi-square, Fisher and independent t in SPSS-22 software.

Findings showed that women working in political and non-political executive organizations based on Chi-square test in terms of education and marriage, based on Fisher test in terms of birth province, birth city, job category and based on independent t-test in terms of mean age and work experience there were no significant difference (P>0.05). Other findings showed that the mean score of  masculine gender role schemas of women working in political executive organizations was significantly higher than women working in non-political executive organizations (P˂0.05), but there were no significant difference in terms of  mean scores of feminine gender role schemas and social utility schemas (P>0.05).

The results showed that masculine gender role schemas in women are affected by employment in political and non-political executive organizations.