Clinical Psychology
Elaheh Sadeghi
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The aim of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of compassion focused theory (CFT) on emotional awareness and interpersonal difficulties of aggressive women. This research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest design. Using Rieffe and etall's emotional awareness, angles and etall's ...
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The aim of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of compassion focused theory (CFT) on emotional awareness and interpersonal difficulties of aggressive women. This research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest design. Using Rieffe and etall's emotional awareness, angles and etall's interpersonal diffialties and Buss-pervy aggression questionnaires, 30 women of aggressive women were purposive selected and were randomly assigned two experimental and control group (each group was 15). The experimental received & sessions of CFT based on Gillbert's instruction package and the control group did not receive any training in this field. After executing the CFT, emotional awareness, interpersonal difficulties and aggression of the members of two groups were measured again. Date were analyzed using multivariate covariance analysis (MANCOVA) and univariate analysis (ANCOVA). Calculated F either in the mancova analysis and either in ancova analysis for variables of emotional awareness, interpersonal difficulties and aggression, showed significant differences in both groups. The results of this study which are in line with other studies that CFT has significant role in increasing emotional awareness and decreasing interpersonal difficulties and aggression with aggressive women,
MOBINA TARKHAN; Hamid Taher Neshatdost; morteza TARKHAN
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Objective: The aim of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of compassion focused therapy on cognitive flexibility and social sufficiency of women with marital conflicts. This research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest design. Using felner and etal's social sufficiency, Denis ...
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Objective: The aim of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of compassion focused therapy on cognitive flexibility and social sufficiency of women with marital conflicts. This research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest design. Using felner and etal's social sufficiency, Denis and Vendervall’s cognitive flexibility and Sanai and Barati's marital conflicts, questionnaires, 30 women of with marital conflicts. Were purposive selected and were randomly assigned in two experimental and control group (each group was 15). The experiment group received 8 sessions of CFT based on Gillbert's instruction package and the control group did not receive any training in this field. After executing the CFT, social sufficiency, cognitive flexibility and marital conflicts of the members of two groups were measured again. Data were analyzed using multivariate covariance analysis (MANCOVA) and univariate covariance analysis (ANCOVA). Calculated F either in the Mancova analysis and either in the Ancova analysis for variables of social sufficiency, cognitive flexibility, showed significant differences in both groups. The results of this study which are in line with other studies that CFT has significant role in increasing social sufficiency and cognitive flexibility in the women with marital conflicts.
