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1- PhD student, General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch, Shahrekord, Iran , ardeshiri2020@gmail.com
2- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch, Shahrekord, Iran
2- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch, Shahrekord, Iran
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Women affected by marital infidelity face a variety of psychological and emotional disturbances. According to this The present study was conducted aiming to investigate the effectiveness of positivist psychotherapy on marital forgiveness and burnout in the women damaged by marital betrayal. The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population of the current study included all damaged women by marital betrayal in the city of Isfahan in 2017. Non-probable available sampling method and random replacement were applied in the present study in a way that 30 women damaged by marital betrayal referring to Gol-e-Mohammadi, Tamasha and Touba centers were selected through purposive and available method and randomly put into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received ten seventy-five-minute intervention sessions during two and a half months while the people in the control group didn’t receive it during this process. The applied questionnaires included forgiveness (Ray et.al, 1983), marital burnout (Paniz, 1996). The data from the study were analyzed through ANCOVA method via SPSS 24 software. The results of data analysis showed that positivist psychotherapy has been effective on the forgiveness (f=68/52, p<0/0001) and marital burnout (f=99/62, p<0/0001) of the women damaged by marital betrayal. According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that the positivist psychotherapy can be used as an efficient treatment to affect marital forgiveness and burnout in the women damaged by marital betrayal.
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