Compare of the Effectiveness of Group Psychodrama Therapy and Group Hold‐Me‐Tight Relationship‐Education Program on Fear of Intimacy of Women Affected by Marital Infidelity

Jamshidi Bourkhani, Zahra; Imani, Saeed; Jafari, Alireza; Ghamari, Mohammad

doi:10.22059/japr.2025.365911.644742

Compare of the Effectiveness of Group Psychodrama Therapy and Group Hold‐Me‐Tight Relationship‐Education Program on Fear of Intimacy of Women Affected by Marital Infidelity

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Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Zahra Jamshidi Bourkhani ¹

Saeed Imani ²

Alireza Jafari ²

Mohammad Ghamari ³

¹ Ph.D student, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities Sciences, Abhar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abhar, Iran

³ Associate professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities Sciences, Abhar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abhar, Iran

10.22059/japr.2025.365911.644742

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare of the effectiveness of group psychodrama therapy and group hold‐me‐tight relationship‐education program on fear of intimacy of women affected by marital infidelity. This semi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group and follow-up 2 month. The statistical population was all the women affected by marital infidelity who referred to counseling centers in the 1st district of Tehran city in year 2022. In the first stage, using purposeful sampling method, 45 women were selected and then randomly divided into 2 experimental groups (each group 15 women) and one control group (15 women) were replaced and experimental groups underwent group psychodrama therapy (10 sessions 90 minutes) and group hold‐me‐tight relationship‐education program (8 sessions 90 minutes). To collect data fear of intimacy scale (FIS). Analysis of variance with repeated measures with SPSS software version 28 was used for data analysis. The results showed that both interventions had a significant effect on fear of intimacy (P<0.05). In addition, the results of Bonferroni post hoc test showed that group hold‐me‐tight relationship‐education program is more effective in fear of intimacy (P<0.05).

Keywords

Fear of Intimacy

Group Hold‐Me‐Tight Relationship-Education Program

Group Psychodrama Therapy

Marital Infidelity