The Effectiveness of education of Imago therapy on reducing regret of choosing spouse in married students

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

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1 Ph.D student in Psychology, Sari University of Azad University

2 Assistant Professor, department of psychology , Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran

3 Professor, department of psychology, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University of Sari, Iran.

Abstract

This study to aim was conducted the effectiveness of education of Imago therapy on reducing regret of choosing a spouse among Gonbad-Kavoos city schools marriage students. The design of research was a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest and follow up with the control group. The population of this study was marriage students of Gonbad-Kavoos. 30 students were selected base on a standard score of higher than the mean in the regret of choosing a spouse scale and were assigned randomly to an experiment and control groups. The participants completed the regret of choosing a spouse scale in three stages pre-test, post-test, and follow-up. The experimental group participated in imago therapy program 10 sessions for 90 minutes twice a week. The results of Covariance Analysis (ANCOVA) showed that the education of Imago therapy has been led to the reduction of the regret of choosing a spouse in the experimental group than the control group at posttest and follow-up stages. Based on the findings, we can conclude that Imago therapy is a suitable method for reducing the regret of choosing a spouse among the marriage students

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