Comparison of the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy and Couple Emotional Focused Therapy on Maladaptive Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies with Marital Conflicts

Bashiri, Shirin; Bagheri, Nasrin; Taheri, Afsaneh

doi:10.22059/japr.2026.385571.645067

Comparison of the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy and Couple Emotional Focused Therapy on Maladaptive Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies with Marital Conflicts

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Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Shirin Bashiri ¹

Nasrin Bagheri ²

Afsaneh Taheri ³

¹ PhD student, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Roudhen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

² Corresponding Author, Department of Psychology, Ro.C. Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

³ Department of Psychology, Ro.C. Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

10.22059/japr.2026.385571.645067

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to comparison of the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral couple therapy and couple emotional focused therapy on maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies with marital conflicts. The method of this quasi -experimental study with pre-test and post-test design was unequal with the control group. The statistical population was all couples with marital conflicts who referred to counseling centers in district 1 of Tehran cityin year summer of year 2024. In the first stage, the number of 45 couples with a score of 115 and above on the marital conflict questionnaire was selected and then randomly divided into 2 experimental groups (each group 15 couples) and one control group (15 couples) were replaced and experimental groups underwent cognitive-behavioral couple therapy (12 sessions of 90 minutes) and couple emotional focused therapy (12 sessions of 90 minutes), but the control group received no therapy and remained in the waiting list. To collect data marital conflict questionnaire (MCQ) and cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (CERQ). Data analysis was performed using SPSS-28 software with analysis of variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni.

Keywords

cognitive-behavioral couple therapy

couple emotional focused therapy

maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies

marital conflicts