Hadi Dehghani Neyestani; Seyed Hamid Atashpour; Hajar Torkan
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Background: Romantic breakups are a common experience for college students that can significantly impact emotional wellbeing. This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of transactional analysis group therapy, schema therapy, and emotionfocused therapy on emotional regulation in female university ...
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Background: Romantic breakups are a common experience for college students that can significantly impact emotional wellbeing. This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of transactional analysis group therapy, schema therapy, and emotionfocused therapy on emotional regulation in female university students experiencing romantic failure.Methods: A quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test control group design was employed. The target population comprised all female university students at Khorasgan University, Isfahan, Iran who had experienced romantic failure in 2022. A convenience sample of 60 female students who met these criteria was selected for participation. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the four groups: transactional analysis group therapy (n=15), schema therapy (n=15), emotion-focused therapy (n=15), and a control group (n=15). Each therapy group participated in eight 90-minute sessions. Data were collected using the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and Bonferroni post hoc tests were conducted using SPSS version 22 to analyze the data.Results: The results demonstrated a significant difference in post-test scores for both positive and negative emotion regulation between the experimental and control groups (P<0.001). The transactional analysis group exhibited the highest mean score (70.01±3.04) for positive emotion regulation, followed by the schema therapy group (72.26±2.74) and the emotion-focused therapy group (71.66±4.28). The control group showed the lowest mean score (29.20±4.45) (P<0.001). For negative emotion regulation, the control group had the highest mean score (55.86±5.23), while the emotion-focused therapy group showed the lowest mean score (21.46±3.70) (P<0.001). The results indicated that transactional analysis group therapy, schema therapy, and emotion-focused therapy significantly increased positive emotion regulation in female university students experiencing romantic failure compared to the control group (P<0.001).Conclusions: This study demonstrated the effectiveness of transactional analysis group therapy, schema therapy, and emotionfocused therapy in improving emotional regulation among female university students experiencing romantic failure. Future research should investigate the long-term effects of these interventions and explore factors that may influence treatment outcomes.
Fahimeh Rahmati; Seyed Esmaeil Mosavi; Zahra Yousefi
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Background: Numerous young women struggle to envision a fulfilling and intimate marriage due to encountering significant challenges during their childhood and/or experiencing multiple unsuccessful relationships in adulthood. This study investigated the influence of life scripts, as defined by transactional ...
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Background: Numerous young women struggle to envision a fulfilling and intimate marriage due to encountering significant challenges during their childhood and/or experiencing multiple unsuccessful relationships in adulthood. This study investigated the influence of life scripts, as defined by transactional analysis theory, on the marriage readiness of female university students of marriageable age in Isfahan, Iran.Methods: This qualitative case study utilized a non-probabilistic, purposive sampling method to select its participants from among all female university students of marriageable age in Isfahan, Iran, between July and September 2022. The sample comprised 15 individuals, determined through theoretical saturation. Data collection was conducted via semi-structured interviews, encompassing demographic information and life script identification. Triangulation involving the researcher, supervisor, and peer advisors was employed to ensure rigor. Manifest and latent content analyses were applied to the data derived from the participant’s responses and narratives using MAXQDA 2022.Results: Analysis identified five predominant life scripts among female university students who exhibited readiness for marriage: “don’t be a child,” “please others,” “be perfect,” “don’t think,” and “try hard.” Conversely, the leading life scripts of students lacking marriage readiness were “don’t grow up,” “don’t get close,” “don’t be important,” and “be perfect.”Conclusion: The findings suggested that life scripts significantly influence marriage readiness and partner selection among female students of marriageable age. Modifying these scripts may enhance these individuals’ preparedness for marriage.
Gooya Safinia; Hossein Ebrahimi Moghadam; Khadijeh Abolmaali
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Background: The recent problems of couples necessitate the greater focus of research in this field on relationships between couples. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of transactional analysis training on communication skills and attribution beliefs of incompatible women in Tehran, Iran. ...
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Background: The recent problems of couples necessitate the greater focus of research in this field on relationships between couples. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of transactional analysis training on communication skills and attribution beliefs of incompatible women in Tehran, Iran. Methods: The research method was quasi-experimental. The research population included all incompatible women who were referred to the psychological clinics of district 1 of Tehran, Iran in 2020. Thirty women were selected as the sample using convenience sampling and randomly divided into experimental and control groups (n=15 in each group). The experimental group underwent eight sessions (60-minutes sessions per week) of transactional analysis training. The follow-up was performed after 60 days. The research instruments included the Communication Skills Questionnaire, the Relationship Attribution Measure, and the Dyadic Adjustment Scale. Data analysis was conducted using repeatedmeasures ANOVA by SPSS software version 24.0. Results: The mean± SD of the post-test scores of communication skills and attribution beliefs of incompatible women was (115.93±8.40) and (85.33±13.40) in the experimental group and (87.93±8.53) and (113.23±12.53) in the control group. The results showed that transactional analysis training effectively and persistently improves communication skills and attribution beliefs of incompatible women (p <0.001). Conclusion: Transactional analysis training can be recommended as an intervention to improve the quality of life of families with computability problems.
