Comparison of Effectiveness Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy on Emotional Expression and Family Resilience in Couples with Marital Burnout

Farhadian Nezhad, Mozhgan; Karimi, Javad; Piriaei, Hassan; Goodarzi, Kourosh

doi:10.22059/japr.2025.383466.645034

Comparison of Effectiveness Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy on Emotional Expression and Family Resilience in Couples with Marital Burnout

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Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Mozhgan Farhadian Nezhad ¹

Javad Karimi ²

Hassan Piriaei ³

Kourosh Goodarzi ⁴

¹ Department of Psychology and Counseling, Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran.

² Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, School of Literature and Humanity Sciences, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran.

³ Department of Mathematics, Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran.

⁴ Department of Psychology, Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran.

10.22059/japr.2025.383466.645034

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the comparison of effectiveness emotionally focused couple therapy and integrative behavioral couple therapy on emotional expression and family resilience in couples with marital burnout. The current study was a semi-experimental application with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a two-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the present study was made up of 212 conflicted couples with marital marital who referred to counseling centers in Shiraz in the spring of 2024. In this research, 53 conflicted couple with marital burnout were selected by purposive sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The couples in the experimental groups received the emotionally focused couple therapy and integrative behavioral couple therapy during eight weeks in eight 90-minute sessions separately. The results showed that emotionally focused couple therapy and integrative behavioral couple therapy has significant effect on the emotional expression (p<0.001) and family resilience (p<0.001) in couples with marital burnout. The results of the follow-up test also showed that emotionally focused couple therapy had a greater impact on couples' emotional expression than integrative behavioral couple therapy. However, no significant difference was observed in the family resilience variable between the present interventions.

Keywords

Emotional Expression

Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy

Family Resilience

Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy

Marital Burnout