Clinical Psychology Achievements

The effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy on difficulty in regulating emotion in women with marital conflict

https://doi.org/10.22055/jacp.2025.48818.1446
Volume 11, Issue 3
Spring 2025
Pages 19-30
Clinical Psychology Achievements

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Moloud Hendiani 1
Reihaneh Shojae 2

1 Ph.D. candidate in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

2 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Faizul Islam Institute of Higher Education, Khomeini Shahr, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy on difficulty in regulating emotion in women with marital conflict. The statistical population of the study included all women with marital conflict who referred to counseling centers in Isfahan in the first half of the year in 1400. Thirty people were selected as a sample from women referring to counseling centers in Isfahan using purposive sampling, and were randomly divided into two experimental groups (15 people) and control group (15 people). The research instruments used was difficulty in emotion regulation (Gertz and Roemer, 2004). It is effective and the rate of this effect in the difficulty of emotion regulation in the post-test stage was 30.3%. Emotion-focused therapy was effective on the dimensions of difficulty in regulating the emotion of women with marital conflict in Isfahan. And this effect was in the non-acceptance of emotional responses in the post-test phase of 18, difficulty in impulse control 13.4%, lack of emotional awareness 17.9%, limited access to emotional regulation strategies 15.1%, and lack of emotional clarity 16.2% (p<.01).
 

Keywords

emotion-focused therapy
difficulty in regulating emotion
women
with marital conflict
Subjects
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