The Effectiveness of Spirituality-Oriented Schema Therapy on Regret of Choosing a Spouse and Marital Burnout in Victim Women of Domestic Violence with Cultural Emphasis

Subject Areas : Psychology

Somayeh Najjar Khodabakhsh ¹ , Hajar Torkan ² , Mohsen Golparvar ³

1 - Ph.D.Student of General Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Islamic Education Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Islamic Education, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Islamic Education, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2024-09-25 Accepted : 2024-11-25 Published : 2024-12-19

Keywords: Spirituality-oriented schema therapy, Regret of choosing a spouse, Marital burnout, Domestic violence,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of spirituality- -oriented schema therapy on regret of choosing a spouse and marital burnout in victim women of domestic violence with cultural emphasis. The statistical population included all the victimized women of domestic violence in Isfahan city during Autumn of 2022. The sample consisted of 30 female victims of violence, who were selected by purposive sampling procedure and randomly divided into two experimental and control groups (15 subjects each group). The research method was semi-experimental with pre-test-post-test design and follow-up with control group. The experimental group was exposed to spirituality- -oriented schema therapy for 10 sessions, 90 minutes each. The control group received none. Research data were collected via implementing the Schwartz's (2002) Regret of Choosing a Spouse Questionnaire and Pines' (1996) Marital Burnout Scale in three stages of pre-test, post-test and follow-up and were analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance. The results showed that spirituality-oriented schema therapy significantly reduced the regret of choosing a spouse and marital boredom in victim women of domestic violence. The findings also indicated that spirituality-oriented schema therapy was significantly effective on the regret of choosing a spouse and marital burnout in women who were the victims of domestic violence with cultural emphasis. Therefore, the research suggested that this therapy could be applied to help victim women of domestic violence. 

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