Comparing the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy and schema therapy on alexithymia of divorced women referring to welfare organization

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Authors

1 PhD Student of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University Tabriz, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department Of Psychology, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Iran

3 Associate professor, Department of Psychology, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

4 Professor, Department Of Psychology, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Iran

Abstract

Objective: Divorce is one of the stressful experiences of the family that can lead to conflict and incompatibility between couples. The aim of this research was to Comparing the effectiveness of acceptance, commitment therapy and schema therapy on alexithymia of divorced women referring to welfare.
Methods: The method of this research was semi-experimental with a pre- post-test design and a control group. The statistical population consisted of all women who referred to welfare organization of Tabriz in the second half of 2022-2023, from which 60 people were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group (20 people in each group). Before and after acceptance and commitment therapy and schema therapy interventions, questionnaire Toronto alexithymia (TAS-20) by Taylor et al. (1997) were used to collect data, and multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) test was used for hypothese analysis.
Results: The results of the analysis of covariance showed that the significance level in all comparisons was less than 0.05, except for the difficulty in identifying emotions, that both interventions were effective on the variable of alexithymia and its two components (p<0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, there was a difference between the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy and schema therapy in all dependent variable components, except difficulty identifying emotions, and the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy was more than schema therapy.

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  • Receive Date: 23 September 2023
  • Revise Date: 19 October 2023
  • Accept Date: 22 October 2023

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