The Efficacy of Self-Compassion Therapy on Emotional Management and Resilience of Women with Culture Grounded Emotional Divorce

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of selfcompassion-focused treatment on emotional management and resilience of women with culture grounded emotional divorce in Andimshek city.The statistical population of the research included all women with emotional divorce who referred to counseling centers in Andimshek city in 1402.The sample was selected among those who referred to the centers via convenience sampling procedure and were assigned randomly in two experimental and control group ten subjects each.The research was designed as semi-experimental with pre-test, posttest and control group.To collect data Connor and Davidson Resilience Questionnaire (2003), Williams Emotion Management Questionnaire (1997) were implemented.The experimental group was exposed to Self-Compassion-Focused Treatment intervention (Russell Koltz et al., 2016) for 8 sessions, once a week and 90 minutes' duration each.The control group received none.Then both groups were post tested.Multi-Variate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) and Univariate Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was applied to analyze data.The results showed that self-compassion treatment was effective on the management of emotions and resilience of women with emotional divorce who refered to the counseling centers of Andimeshk city.Generally, the women with emotional divorce experience unstable emotions.Such circumstances could cause negative effects on them.The cultural factors could also play a significant role to increase the emotional divorce risk in women.