نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 کارشناس ارشد، گروه روانشناسی بالینی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی خوراسگان، اصفهان، ایران
2 استادیار، گروه روانشناسی، دانشگاه پیام نور، تهران، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Introduction: Infertility imposes various problems on infertile couples including low distress tolerance. Recently, emotional focused therapy is one of the interventions that has been used to treat psychological problems of these couples. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of emotionally focused therapy on distress tolerance in infertile couples in Isfahan city.
Materials and Methods: The present study was a quasi-experimental design with pre- and post-test measures and two groups (experimental and control). Using available sampling method, 20 infertile couples are selected among all infertile couples referred to the infertility centers in Isfahan city in 2015. They were then randomly divided into two groups of 10 couple. Both groups completed Simons and Gaher distress tolerance questionnaire (2005) as a pre-test. The experimental group received 8 sessions emotionally focused therapy for four weeks prior to performing post-test. Data analyzing tools were descriptive statistics including mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics including multivariate analysis of covariance.
Results: The results of the study showed that in the experimental group, the mean of pre-test was increased significantly from 29.37 to 33.13 in post-test (p= 0.001) compared to the control group.
Conclusion:According to the result of the present study,emotionally focused therapy may improve distress tolerance and can be recommended to infertile couples.
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