Journal of Family Research

Journal of Family Research

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

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mahshid Niknezhadi 1
, Ilnaz Sajjadian 2
Gholamreza Manshaee 3
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.
10.48308/jfr.19.3.483
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.
Keywords
Emotion Efficacy Therapy
Trust in close Relationships
Interpersonal Forgiveness
Trauma
Husband Infidelity
Subjects
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