Efectiveness of Systemic-Constructivist Paternity Therapy on the Initial Maladaptive Schemas and Tendency to Extramarital Relationships in the Female Divorce Applicants

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1 Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Humanities, Islamic Azad University of Ilam, Ilam, Iran.

2 Psychology,University azad islamic Ilam

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The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of systemic-constructivist paternity therapy approach on the initial maladaptive schemas and the tendency to extramarital relationships of women as the divorce applicants. The research design was based on a semi-experimental with pre-test-post-test approach and control group. The statistical population consisted of all female divorce applicants, who referred to kermanshah city’s counseling centers in 2017. Among them, 30 people have been selected in the form of voluntary purposive sampling and randomly being assigned into two experimental (15 couples) and controls (15 couples) groups. Yang schema questionnaire and extramarital relationships questionnaire were used in the pretest and posttest for collecting information. Systemic-constructivist paternity therapy approach was then performed on the experimental group for 9 sessions of 2 hours one session a week. Results of the univariant covariance moncova analysis showed that the systemic-constructivist paternity therapy on initial maladaptive schemas and the tendency for extramarital relationships among female divorce applicants. Based on the findings of the research, it is recommended to apply the systemic-constructivist paternity therapy approach for equalizing the initial maladaptive schemas and reducing the tendency to extramarital relationships in female divorce applicants.

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