Effectiveness of communication skills training on self-esteem, perfectionism and marital burnout in women referring to Isfahan counseling centers

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Fershteh Korahng Behshti ¹
• Somaye Torkaman ²

¹ Department of Clinical Psychology, Family Orientation, Khomeini Shahr Azad University.

² M.A. in clinical Psychology, Tehran Azad University of Medical Sciences

10.30495/jpmm.2023.29899.3581

Abstract

Introduction: Marriage is the first emotional and legal treaty in our lives. Frustration and frustration are the gradual reduction of emotional attachment to the spouse, which is associated with the feeling of alienation, indifference and disparity between couples and the replacement of negative emotions rather than positive emotions. Accordingly, the aim of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of teaching skills Relationship between self-esteem, perfectionism and marital exhaustion of women referring to Isfahan counseling centers.
Method: The statistical population of this study consisted of all women referring to Isfahan counseling centers. Samples of 40 students were randomly assigned into two groups of experimental and control groups. The experimental group consisted of 20 women who referred to the group communication skills training they received 10 weekly sessions, and the control group consisted of the same number of people who did not receive the training. The instrument used in this research was self-esteem (Cooper Smith), perfectionism (Hill) and marital burnout (Paniz), which was done in two stages of pre-test and post-test on two experimental and control groups. To analyze the data, the statistical analysis of covariance analysis was used in SPSS software.
Results: The results of the analysis showed that communication skills training caused a significant reduction in the mean scores and marital burnout of the experimental group compared with the control group. Also, these trainings significantly increased the mean scores of self-esteem among the experimental group, but these did not significantly reduce perfectionism.

Keywords

• Marital burnout
• communication skills
• self-esteem
• perfectionism
• referring women

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