Comparing the effectiveness of pleasure ability therapy based on healthy human theory and cognitive behavioral therapy on rumination and metacognitive beliefs of women involved in emotional divorce

Abstract

This research was conducted to compare the effectiveness of the treatment of the ability to enjoy based on the healthy human theory and cognitive behavioral therapy on rumination and metacognitive beliefs of women involved in an emotional divorce in Isfahan city. The current study was quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and a 1-month follow-up with a control group. The statistical population of the present study was all women involved in emotional divorce who referred and were referred to counseling centers in Isfahan city. Among these people, 54 were replaced in three groups of 18 people (two test groups and one control group) using the available sampling method. The treatment course was the ability to enjoy based on the healthy human theory and cognitive behavioral therapy in 8 treatment sessions (2 hours and two times a week). However, the control group did not receive any intervention. The research tools were the emotional divorce questionnaire (Gottman, 1994), the rumination questionnaire (Nolen-Hoeksma & Morrow, 1991), and the metacognitive beliefs questionnaire (Wells, 1997). For data analysis, analysis of variance with repeated measurements was performed using SPSS 24 software. The results showed that the treatment of the ability to enjoy based on the healthy human theory effectively reduced rumination and metacognitive beliefs in women involved in an emotional divorce in the post-test and follow-up phase. Its effect remained stable over time (p<0.05). Also, cognitive behavioral therapy effectively reduced rumination only in the post-test phase and reduced metacognitive beliefs in the post-test and follow-up phase, and its effect remained stable over time. According to the obtained results, pleasure therapy based on healthy human theory and cognitive behavior is considered one of the effective methods in treating cognitive problems.