Offering Attachment-Based Mindfulness Therapy and Evaluating Its Efficacy on the Self- compassion and Emotional Experience with Spouse in the Women with the Experience of Marital Infidelity

Shamsi, Masomeh; Taghvaei, Davod; Davodi, Hosein

doi:10.22038/mjms.2022.65309.3836

Offering Attachment-Based Mindfulness Therapy and Evaluating Its Efficacy on the Self- compassion and Emotional Experience with Spouse in the Women with the Experience of Marital Infidelity

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

masomeh shamsi ¹

davod taghvaei ²

hosein davodi ³

¹ PhD Student in Counseling, Department of Psychology, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran.

² Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran. (Corresponding author)

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, Khomein Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran.

10.22038/mjms.2022.65309.3836

Abstract

Introduction and purpose: Marital infidelity causes serious psychological and emotional damage to women. According to this the aim of this study was to develop a attachment-based mindfulness therapy was prepared and its efficacy was evaluated on the self- compassion and emotional experience with spouse in the women with the experience of marital infidelity.
Material and methods: The research method of the present study was comparative analysis according to Breddy’s comparative method in the qualitative part and it was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group with two-month follow-up test in the quantitative part. The statistical population of included the women with marital experience who referred to consultation centers in the city of Tehran in the autumn 2020 in the quantitative part. 30 women with marital experience were selected through purposive sampling method and were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 15) in order to do the study. The experimental group received eight sessions of attachment-based mindfulness therapy during two months. 3 people from the experimental group and 2 from the control group quitted taking part in the study after starting the intervention. The applied questionnaires in this study included self- compassion questionnaire and emotional experience with spouse scale. The data from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement variance method via statistical software.
Findings: The results showed that the attachment-based mindfulness therapy enjoys acceptable content validity. Moreover, this therapy has influenced on the self- compassion and emotional experience with spouse in the women with marital infidelity.

Keywords

Marital infidelity

attachment-based mindfulness therapy

self- compassion

emotional experience with spouse

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