Malihe Amirirad; elahe Aslami; Shoukofeh Mousavi
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The present research is aimed at investigating the effectiveness of self-compassion focused Therapy on finding meaning in life, and sexual satisfaction in women with addicted husband in the city of Mashhad. The research was a semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design and control group. The ...
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The present research is aimed at investigating the effectiveness of self-compassion focused Therapy on finding meaning in life, and sexual satisfaction in women with addicted husband in the city of Mashhad. The research was a semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design and control group. The population included all the women with addicted husbands who had referred to addiction treatment centers. 30 people were selected by purposive convenience sampling. 15 people were randomly assigned to the experimental group of self-compassion training and 15 people were randomly assigned to the control group average. The questionnaires included Steger and Frazier’s meaning in life questionnaire (2006) used for measuring finding meaning in life, and Yavari Kermani’s sexual satisfaction questionnaire (2007) used for measuring sexual satisfaction. The mentioned questionnaires were used in two phases of pretest and posttest. The experimental group received self-compassion training program for eight 120-minute sessions. The findings of multivariate and one-way analysis of covariance in the experimental and control groups showed that the effect of self-compassion training was in the subscales of self-compassion training significantly increased the variables of finding meaning in life (F=12/42, P < 0/01), existence of meaning (F=4/25, p < 0/05), seeking for meaning (F=17/84), and sexual satisfaction (F=93/51, p < 0/001) in women. The results of this study suggested that self-compassion training is an effective way of increasing the variables of finding meaning in life, and sexual satisfaction in women with addicted husbands.
Mohaddeseh Manouchehri; Mahmoud Gholzari; Ezzat Ollah Kordmirza Nikouzadeh
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Drug addiction as an infelicitous social phenomenon has many detrimental effects including stress on the substance user and his family and specifically his wife. What makes health behavior at risk is the assessment of stress and ways of coping with it. The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness ...
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Drug addiction as an infelicitous social phenomenon has many detrimental effects including stress on the substance user and his family and specifically his wife. What makes health behavior at risk is the assessment of stress and ways of coping with it. The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of hope therapy on employ positive coping with stress strategies in wives of addicted men. The present study is a quasi-experimental with design of pre-test and post- test with control group and follow-up. This study was performed on 30 wives of addicted men in Shiraz city based on available sampling and randomly included in two groups of experiment (n=15) and control (n=15). Coping with Stress Inventory (Carver, Schier & Weintrap, 1989) was used as measurement instrument. Data were analyzed using t-test and analysis of covariance by SPSS 17 software.The results showed that the hope therapy can effect on the use of positive coping with stress at a level of significance less than 0/001. These results were stable during follow up period.According to the results of present research, can use of hope therapy as one ways to help wives of addicted men for employing the positive coping strategies for their stress.
