Efficiency of Therapeutic Model Based on Therapeutic Schema and Compassion-Focused Therapy on the Self-Compassion in Conflicting Women with Early Maladaptive Schemas Related to Disconnection and Rejection Domain

Emadifar, Farnaz; Fallah Ayakhdani, Mohammad Hosein; Vaziri Yazdi, Saeid; Chaboki Nejad, Zahra

doi:10.22038/mjms.2022.20155

Efficiency of Therapeutic Model Based on Therapeutic Schema and Compassion-Focused Therapy on the Self-Compassion in Conflicting Women with Early Maladaptive Schemas Related to Disconnection and Rejection Domain

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Farnaz Emadifar ¹

Mohammad Hosein Fallah Ayakhdani ²

Saeid Vaziri Yazdi ³

Zahra Chaboki Nejad ⁴

¹ PhD Student in Counseling, Islamic Azad University, Yazd Branch, Yazd, Iran.

² Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Yazd Branch, Yazd, Iran.

³ Faculty member, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Yazd Branch, Yazd, Iran.

⁴ Member of Psychology and Counseling Department, Yazd University of Science and Art, Yazd, Iran.

10.22038/mjms.2022.20155

Abstract

Introduction and purpose: The present study was conducted with the purpose of investigating the efficiency of therapeutic model based on therapeutic schema and compassion-focused therapy on the self-compassion in conflicting women with early maladaptive schemas related to disconnection and rejection domain.
Material and methods: The present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population of the present study included conflicting women with early maladaptive schemata related to disconnection and rejection domain who attended consultation centers in the city of Isfahan in the summer of 2020. 30 women were selected through non-random purposive sampling method and they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (15 women in the experimental group and 15 in the control group). The experimental group received therapeutic model intervention based on therapeutic schema and compassion-focused therapy (10 sessions) during two-and-half months. The applied questionnaires in the current study include marital conflict (Barati and Sanaei, 1996), early maladaptive schemas questionnaire (Yang, 1998), self-compassion questionnaire (neff, 2003). The data from the study were analyzed through ANCOVA method via SPSS23 statistical software.
Findings : The results showed that the therapeutic model based on therapeutic schema and compassion-focused therapy has effect on the self-compassion in conflicting women with early maladaptive schemas related to disconnection and rejection domain (p<0.0001) such that this therapy led to the increase of the women’s self-compassion.

Keywords

Therapeutic model based on therapeutic schema and compassion-focused therapy

self-compassion

early maladaptive schemas

conflicting women