Showing 14 results for اعتمادی
اميد عيسي نژاد, سيد احمد احمدي, عذرا اعتمادي, رزگار قادرپور,
Volume 9, Issue 1 (4-2011)
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Aim and Background: Relationship enhancement is one of the life skill training programs and it could effect on couples coping styles with life tensions. This study aimed to investigate the effect of relationship enhancement on improving marital coping strategies of couples in Isfahan. Method and Materials: The design of this study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control groups. The population was the couples who referred themselves to in order to conduct this study, 24 couples were randomly selected from the couples who were volunteer to take place in the research to nervous and psychiatry center in 2008. They lives 2 years with together at least and aren’t in divorce stage then they randomly assigned in two experimental (13 couples) and control groups (11 couples). Relationship enhancement was administrated in 8 sessions for the experimental group. The data of the Marital Coping Inventory (MCI) was analyzed by covariance analysis. Findings: The result showed that relationship enhancement effectively led to decrease the marital conflict, introspective self-blame, and self-interest, marital avoidance strategies and to increase the positive approach strategy. The result of follow up after a month showed that there was differences between experimental and control groups considering the scores of marital coping strategies and its dimensions (p< 0.01). The efficacy of relationship enhancement had remained after a month. Conclusions: Results provided useful information for counselors and psychotherapists about relationship enhancement program and marital coping strategies and the ways of manipulation of these strategies. Relationship Enhancement (RE) may be implicated for improving of marital coping strategies and decreasing marital conflict in couple therapy.
محمدتقي سعيدي, فخرالسادات قريشي راد, حسن بافنده قراملكي, سجاد توسلي, مسعود اعتمادي فر,
Volume 11, Issue 4 (8-2013)
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Aim and Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system in which primary symptoms emerges in adults between the age 20 and 40 years old. Previous findings indicate 15-20 percent of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients are diagnosed with executive function impairments. The purpose of this study is to evaluate planning function as one of executive functions subsets in patients with relapsing-remitting MS. Method and Materials: In this ex-post facto study which is done in Esfahan MS association, 49 female with relapsing-remitting MS and 43 female age-, education- and IQ-matched without MS were selected by haphazard sampling. To assess their planning function, both groups were tested using Tower of Hanoi task. Findings: Multivariate analysis of variance shows significant difference between to group in three, four, five, six and seven movement tasks(p<0/ 001). Additionally, patient group has more extra moves (errors) than observe, considering that there was no limitation in time. To measure the sensitivity and specificity of different tasks of Tower of Hanoi task, ROC curve is applied. All curves were located above the reference line. Conclusions: Findings indicate patients with MS had impairment in planning function which is not caused by deficit in their general IQ. Also results showed that six and seven movement tasks of the Tower of Hanoi have higher sensitivity and specificity for assessing planning function.
شيما مصريپور, عذرا اعتمادي, سيد احمد احمدي, رضوانالسادات جزائري,
Volume 14, Issue 3 (12-2016)
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Aim and Background: Given the complex nature of cheating and its catastrophic impact on tendency toward divorce, it is imperative to adopt effective interventions to help those couples who are facing this problem. This study aimed to compare effectiveness of the counseling programs based on tendency toward divorce among couples involved in extramarital relationships. Methods and Materials: Present study is a quasi-experimental study. The subjects were selected from clients referring to the counseling centers in Isfahan, Iran, through convenience sampling method. The participants were non-randomly divided into four groups including couple counseling (8 couples), husbands’ individual counseling (16 men being cheated on and their spouses), wives’ individual counseling (16 cheating women and their spouses), and the control group (n = 16). Three experimental groups were treated in ten 80-minute sessions. Divorce tendency questionnaire was used to assess intervention effectiveness and to compare the surveyed groups. Various studies have reported the acceptable reliability and validity of this instrument. Findings: The data of all participants (96 individuals including the couples in all groups) were analyzed. The repeated measures test was used to evaluate the main and interactive effects of the time and surveyed groups regarding divorce and its components. The effect of group interaction (individual counseling group, couple counseling group and control group) and time (three stages: pre-test, post-test and follow-up) were significant in all surveyed variables (P < 0.001). Conclusions: Counseling programs based on couple counseling, compared with individual counseling methods, had higher effectiveness regarding tendency toward divorce among couples involved in extramarital relations.
سميه هاشمي مفرد, رضوان السادات جزايري, مريم فاتحي زاده, عذرا اعتمادي, محمدرضا عابدي,
Volume 14, Issue 3 (12-2016)
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Aim and Background: The women with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder face some damages in different relationships during their life knowing them can help the consultants to cure them. The purpose of the present study was to investigate and identify the interspousal damages in women's marital relationships. Methods and Materials: This was a study based on the qualitative methodology approach. Data collection was done through 14 semi-structured interviews with family specialists, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists. The data analysis was conducted via thematic analysis. The sampling was stated purposefully and it was continued up to the data saturation; data analysis was done simultaneous with the data collection. Findings: The data analysis led to extracting five themes which showed the background of women's interspousal damages. The themes (subjects) included developmental, intrapersonal, interspousal, familial and social damages which were effective on the interspousal relationship among these women. Conclusions: The achieved results revealed that familial and environmental damages caused the growth of obsessive-compulsive personality features in these women; these damages affected their relationships in life such as parent-child as well as social relationships, which could affect interspousal relationships. Therefore, in order to decrease the effect of these damages, consultation and psychology interventions are needed in women with obsessive-compulsive personality symptoms.
احمد نوري, عذرا اعتمادي, رضوان السادات جزايري, مريم فاتحي زاده,
Volume 15, Issue 1 (4-2017)
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Aim and Background: This study aimed to explore the psychological domestic abuse of women by their spouse in a sample of Iranian couples. Methods and Materials: This study had a basic aim and a qualitative design (grounded theory). The statistical population consisted of a compilation of electronic resources, books, theses, and journals, and opinions of family counseling experts and women who had suffered domestic abuse in Isfahan, Iran. Purposeful sampling was performed and continued until saturation of the categories. The collected data consisted of 15 semi-structured interviews with abused married women, 10 interviews with family counseling experts and content analysis of books, articles, and journals related to psychological domestic abuse. Findings: The results showed that some cases of domestic abuse by men were disregard for the spouse's needs, lack of commitment and accountability, controlling behavior, anti-moral values, and frustrating habits and personality traits. Domestic abuse was rooted in social, religious, economic, environmental, cultural, and familial backgrounds. Intervening factors included factors related to the interference of others, personality traits of the abused person, and background factors. The causal factors included interpersonal conditions and personality types. The most important strategies of women against domestic abuse included aggressive–confrontational, silence, peaceful, defensive, reformation, and alternative response. The consequences of domestic abuse were found to be individual, interpersonal, familial, and social consequences. Conclusions: Psychological domestic abuse of women by men is affected by background, intervening, psychological, and personality factors. It seems that the model obtained in this study can be used in treatment interventions for abused women.
راضیه جلوانی, عذرا اعتمادی, رضوان السادات جزایری, مریم فاتحیزاده,
Volume 15, Issue 3 (10-2017)
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Aim and Background: Since the experience of emotion covers a major part of man’s life, emotion regulation and factors that affect it can play an effective role in individual’s life. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to find out the factors influencing emotion regulation. Methods and Materials: This research was a qualitative survey based on grounded theory. Data analysis was carried out using conventional content analysis. Statistical population consisted of married women residing in Isfahan, Iran. Sampling was conducted on purposive method and saturated design chosen from 10 married women who intended to enroll in cultural education courses. Data gathering was carried out using in-depth semi-structured interview method. Findings: Taking the conducted interviews from married women into account, the results of the content analysis showed 7 nuclear topics consisting of biological, intra-personal, psychological, couple-related, family-related, environmental-social and strategic factors, along with 16 auxiliary subtitles. Conclusions: Taking into account the acquired nuclear factors from the present study, regulating women’s emotion is a biological, psychological and social problem. The researchers and therapists are therefore recommended to pay attention to family, couple, social and biological factors along with intra-personal and psychological parameters so that they could benefit from further findings in this field.
نگار بهمنی, عذرا اعتمادی, سید احمد احمدی, مریم فاتحی زاده,
Volume 15, Issue 4 (8-2017)
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Aim and Background: The marital disaffection seems to be the last step in marital relationships. Therefore, study of the effective factors on this variable is important. The purpose of this study was to review the factors affecting marital disaffection among Iranian couples. Methods and Materials: This research was fundamental in terms of objective, and a qualitative plan of the grounded theory type in terms of method. Statistical population of the study included married women and men in Tehran City, Iran. The required information was collected through a targeted sampling method from 15 people who had marital disaffection, and was continued till saturation of data. Research tools were a semi-structured deep interviewed and the information was analyzed using theoretical coding. Findings: After analysis of interviews, the factors affecting marital disaffection were classified based on selective coding in four categories of interpersonal factors (lack of intimacy, structure of power, sexual dissatisfaction, and roles in the main family), strategies (aggression, and conflict resolution styles), cognitive factors (communication beliefs, and cognitive distortions), and situational factors (spouse's family, and the effects of virtual space on the couple’s relation). Conclusions: On this basis, we could conclude that couples' marital disaffection is affected by the various contextual, intervention, psychological, and personality factors. Therefore, when counselling and treating couples with marital disaffection, attention to the various factors of marital disaffection is essential and this research could be a suitable guide for therapists to provide proper interventions for couples suffering frustration.
صادق باران اولادی, عذرا اعتمادی, سيد احمد احمدی, مريم فاتحیزاده,
Volume 16, Issue 1 (4-2018)
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Aim and Background: Treatment of the couples suffer from infidelity, is a complex and multifaceted process. This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of couple therapy after the infidelity of men. Methods and Materials: This was a quasi-experimental research with pretest, posttest, and follow up, as well as the control group. The study population consisted of all the couples living in Kerman City, Iran, and referred to counseling centers in this city. Those who had the problem of marital infidelity in years 2015-2016 enrolled in this study. The sample included 16 couples that responded desire to divorce scale. Then randomly divided into two groups of control and experimental. In the experimental group, 6-12 therapy sessions were conducted with an average of 9 meetings. Data were analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA. Findings: The treatment decreased couples’ desire to divorce, and the scores in 3 measurements (pretest, posttest, and follow up) were significantly different (P < 0.010). Conclusions: Access to mental health care after infidelity of couples reduces the desire to divorce.
Zahra Chabakinejad , Ozra Etemadi, Fatemeh Bahrami, Maryam Fatehizadeh,
Volume 17, Issue 1 (8-2019)
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Aim and Background: Marital relationship is one of the most important areas of life of individuals whose various factors play a role in it. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of couple counseling on marital conflicts and marital intimacy couples with different personality traits referred to counseling centers in Yazd. Methods and Materials: This is a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest design with control group. In order to conduct research, all couples with different personality traits referring to counseling centers in Yazd were randomly selected into experimental and control groups. The experimental group was subjected to twin counseling based on solving the problem of personality differences for 12 sessions. Two pre-test and post-test questionnaires were used for Marital Conflicts Questionnaire (MCQ) and Marital Intimacy Questionnaire (MIC). Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance and using SPSS software. Findings: The results showed that marital counseling was effective on marital intimacy and conflicts on subjects. Conclusions: In order to reduce marital conflicts and increase marital intimacy in couples with different personality traits can use counseling based on solving the problem of personality differences and suggest it to marriage counselors and professionals.
Parisa Hariri, Ozra Etemadi, Ahmad Abedi,
Volume 17, Issue 2 (8-2019)
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Aim and Background: Substance abuse disorder or addiction is complex behavioral problems arising from many interacting factors, including social, cultural, environmental, psychological and biological. This research aimed to study the effect of Imago relationship therapy for couples on marital stability in veteran couples. Methods and Materials: This was a quasi-experimental research with pretest, posttest, and follow up, as well as the control group. The study population consisted of all the veteran couples living in Shiraz City, Iran. The sample included 20 couples that were randomly divided into two groups of control and experimental. In the experimental group, 10 therapy sessions were conducted with an average of 90-minute. The participants answered to Marital Instability Index Scale (Edards, 1980) in three stages: pre-test, post-test and follow-up. Data were analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA. Findings: The results showed that there is a significant relationship between developmental assets and its dimensions with addiction potential and its components in adolescents (p<.001). Also, developmental assets and its dimensions predict the addiction potential and its components (p<.001). Conclusions: Imago relationship therapy due to understand process unconscious and combination of insight and practice, it can increase marital intimacy.
Farahnaz Nazari , Ozra Etemadi, Ahmad Aabedi,
Volume 17, Issue 3 (10-2019)
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Aim and Background: Intimacy is a key and important property of a marital relationship and a distinguished attribute of a successful marriage. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of the couple relationship enrichment by Olson’s method on the increase in the marital intimacy of couples.
Methods and Materials: The present study was methodologically quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design with a 45-day follow-up. The statistical population was 30 couples from Farsan city and its suburb in 2018. The sample of the present study comprised 20 couples voluntarily selected from the couples in Farsan city and its suburb according to a call on educational-counseling courses. The experimental group received the couple relationship enrichment training by Olson’s method for 7 sessions. The control group was also in the waiting list. To collect data, we employed Bagharouzi’s Marital Intimacy Questionnaire. To analyze the data, we used a mixed-ANOVA test.
Findings: The results revealed that the couple relationship enrichment by Olson’s method was effective in increasing the marital intimacy of couples in Farsan city (p<0.001). Furthermore, this effect was also stable in the follow-up phase after 45 days (p<0.001).
Conclusions: Training communicational skills in the couple relationship enrichment approach by Olson’s method could be effective in enhancing the marital intimacy of couples in Farsan city. Theoretical and applied considerations have been posed in the conclusion part.
Zahra Mosavi, Ozra Etemadi ,
Volume 17, Issue 4 (1-2020)
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Aim and Background: Spouse abuse is one of the major health crises in the world, which simultaneously threatens people's physical and mental health. The World Health Organization has reported that spousal abuse is more prevalent in the form of violence against women in families, with one out of every three women being physically, sexually or otherwise abused in the world. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the Effectiveness of Imago relationship training on Negative Marital Attitudes in Couples with Emotional spouse abuse.
Methods and Materials: This research was based on objective, applied and, in terms of data type, quantitative. In terms of research design, the present study was a semi-experimental method with pre-test and post-test design with control group. In this study, population was the couples were afflicted with spouse abuse in Isfahan city in the year 96. The sample consisted of 16 couples (32 people) who were purposefully selected based on the criteria for including and excluding and randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups.
Findings: The results of multivariate and one-variable covariance analysis showed that Imago relationship training in the experimental group significantly decreased negative marital attitudes in comparison with the control group.
Conclusion: Regarding the effect of Imago relationship training on negative marital attitudes, it is suggested that the therapists include the main components of this treatment in working with couples with a spouse's problem.
Mrs Soheila Etemadi, Phd Hamid Poursharifi, Buick Tajeri, Mehdii Kalantari, Nahid Hoasi Somar,
Volume 18, Issue 1 (3-2020)
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Aim and Background: Regard to the impact of the sexual traumatic event on somatic and psychological functioning and the importance of this issue in students, the present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the severity of sexual trauma experience on somatic symptoms and the role of moderating cognitive emotion regulation strategies in Student girls abused.
Methods and Materials: The present research method was descriptive-correlation and the statistical population was all students aged 14 to 17 in Tehran province in the academic year of 1997-98. In this study, two areas were selected as available (Rudehen Education Area and Four Area). By screening the cases of sexual experience (sexual harassment and sexual abuse), 273 people participated in the analysis as the main sample. The data were collected by checklist of Traumatic Experiences of Nugent Hues and Wonder Hart & Kruger (2002), Cognitive emotion regulation strategies questionnaire Garnefsky et al. (2001), Greek’s Mental Health Questionnaire (2015), and analyzed using correlation, bootstrap test, and conditional effects.
Findings: The results of the present study showed that among the strategies of emotion regulation, Catastrophizing and rumination positivity, and acceptance negatively, were able to significantly moderate the effects severity of the experience of sexual trauma on somatic symptoms.
Conclusions: Due to the moderating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the relationship between the severity of sexual experience and somatic symptoms in order to promote physical health and reduce somatic symptoms, it is recommended to develop programs to study the history of trauma, especially sexual trauma in adolescents with somatic symptoms, and also by training the emotion regulation consistence strategies, effective interventions should be performed.
Elham Ghafaralahi, Ozra Etemadi, Zahra Yousefi, Mohammadreza Abedi, Hajar Torkan,
Volume 19, Issue 2 (8-2021)
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Aim and Background: Marital infidelity refers to any emotionally or sexual or virtual relationship beyond the framework of a committed relationship between two spouses, which is one of the most important factors threatening the performance, stability and continuity of married life. Therefore, the aim of this study was to Comparison of the effectiveness of Commitment-Building Counseling Package and Emotionally-Focused Couple Therapy on marital boredom and forgiveness of women with virtual infidelity.
Methods and Materials: Research method in terms of applied purpose and in terms of implementation method, quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test design of two experimental groups and one group
The witness was accompanied by a follow-up test. From the community of married women with the experience of virtual infidelity in Isfahan, 45 people were selected by the available method and were randomly divided into three groups using the method. Marital boredom questionnaire (Pins, 1996) and interpersonal forgiveness questionnaire (Ehteshamzadeh, 2009) were used. Research data were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance and Bonferroni post hoc test.
Findings: The results of the analysis both commitment-making and emotionally-oriented couple therapy methods were effective in reducing marital boredom and forgiveness of women with virtual infidelity, and commitment-building Counseling package had a more significant effect (p<0.05).
Conclusions: According to the obtained results, it seems that the use of both commitment-making and emotion-oriented couple therapy methods to improve marital boredom and forgiveness of women with virtual infidelity experience has been effective and it is suggested to be used as therapeutic and educational approaches.