Effectiveness of imago relationship Therapy on meta cognitive beliefs, forgiveness, and psychological well-being of divorced women in shahr-e ray

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Hassan Rahmanishamsh ¹
• Hamid Nejat ²
• Hassan Toozandeh-Jani ¹
• Ahmad Zendeh-del ¹
• Zahra Bagherzadeh Golmakanih ¹

¹ Department of Psychology ،Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran.

² Department of Psychology, Quchan Branch، Islamic Azad University, Quchan, Iran.

10.30495/jpmm.2022.27556.3342

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to Effectiveness of imago relationship Therapy on meta cognitive beliefs, forgiveness, and psychological well-being of divorced women in shahr-e ray The research design is a pretest-post test test with a test and control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of all divorce applicants in shahr-e ray selected from among them by available sampling method, 28 subject were selected by available sampling method. And these 28 subject, 14 were assigned to the experimental group and 14 to the control group. Imago therapy was administered to the two experimental groups for 8 sessions. And the control group was on the waiting list and received no intervention. The tools used in this study included the Meta cognitive Beliefs Questionnaire ,Forgiveness Questionnaire, and the Well-being Questionnaire which the participants answered to the pre-test and post-test questions. Descriptive statistics and covariance analysis were used to analyze the results The results showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of variables of meta cognitive beliefs, forgiveness and psychological well-being (P <0.001). Also, the level of meta cognitive beliefs, forgiveness and psychological well-being in the experimental group in the post-test phase were significantly different from the control group.

Keywords

• Imago therapy
• the meta cognitive
• forgiveness
• psychological well-being
• Divorce

20.1001.1.22285516.1401.13.47.2.2

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