Journal of Applied Psychological Research

The Effectiveness of Emotion Focused Therapy on Resilience and Rumination in 20- to 25-Year-Old Girls with Emotional Failure Syndrome

Articles in Press

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Samira Akhavan Arjomand 1
Mohammad Ghasemi Pirbalouti 2
Fariba Kiani 3

1 Department of Psychology, ShK.C., Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, ShK.C. Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran.

3 Department of Psychology, Bor.C., Islamic Azad University, Borujen, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22059/japr.2026.401507.645335
Abstract
The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of emotion focused therapy on resilience and rumination in 20- to 25-year-old girls with emotional failure syndrome. The current study was a 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 consisted of 20- to 25-year-old girls with emotional failure syndrome who referred to counseling centers in Isfahan in winter the 2024. In this research, 34 girl with emotional failure syndrome were selected by purposeful sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (17 girl in the experimental group and 17 girl in the control group). The girls in the experimental group received the emotion focused therapy during eight weeks in eight 90-minute sessions. Love Trauma Questionnaire (LTQ), Resilience Questionnaire (RQ) and Rumination Questionnaire (RQ) were used in the present study. The data were analyzed through mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 software. The results showed that emotion focused therapy has significant effect on the resilience (p<0.0001) and rumination (p<0.0001) in girls with emotional failure syndrome.

Keywords

Emotional Failure Syndrome
Emotion Focused Therapy
Resilience
Rumination
Journal of Applied Psychological Research

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 12 July 2026

  • Receive Date 29 August 2025
  • Revise Date 06 October 2025
  • Accept Date 01 November 2025
  • First Publish Date 12 July 2026
  • Publish Date 12 July 2026