The Effectiveness of Emotion Efficacy Therapy on Trust in Close Relationships and Interpersonal Forgiveness of Women Injured by the Trauma of Husband Infidelity

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1 PhD Student, Department of psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch , Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology Department, Community Health Research Center, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch , Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Community Health Research Center, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effecti-veness of emotion efficacy therapy on trust in close relationships and interper-sonal forgiveness among women injured by the trauma of husband infidelity. The research method was quasi-experimental and pretest-posttest design with two-mo-nths follow-up.  The statistical population was the women injured by the trauma of husband infid-elity who used the services of counseling centers in Isfahan City, after screening with the post-traumatic stress disorder me-asurement scale (weathers et al. 1994), 30 people were selected by purposive sam-pling and they were randomly replaced in two experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). The research tools were Trust in Close Relationships Ques-tionnaire (Rempel & Holmes, 1986) and Interpersonal Forgiveness (Ehteshamza-deh, et al. 2011). The data were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of varia-nce. The experimental group underwent 8 session of 90-minute emotion efficacy therapy intervention by McKay & West (2016), but the control group received no treatment. The results showed the effect of emotion efficacy therapy on Trust in Close Relationships (P<0.001, F=9.75) and Interpersonal Forgiveness (P<0.001, F=0.003) in post-test, and stability of this effect was in the follow-up. According to the results of this research, emotion effi-cacy therapy can be used to improve trust in close relationships and interpersonal forgiveness of women Injured by the tra-uma of husband’s infidelity.

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Journal of Family Research
Volume 19, Issue 3 - Serial Number 75
December 2023
Pages 483-500

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