Efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on the Emotional Expression and Sexual Function in Infertile Women’s

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran.

2 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Rodhan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy on the emotional expression and sexual function in infertile women’s. It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest and control group design. Two-month follow-up period was administered too. The statistical population included infertile women who referred to infertility clinic at Mother and Child Hospital and Samar infertility clinic in the city of Shiraz in the winter of 2021. 36 infertile women were selected through voluntary sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received ten sessions of acceptance and commitment therapy during two-and-a-half-months. The applied questionnaires in this study included Emotional Expression Questionnaire (EEQ) (King, Emmons, 1990) and Sexual Function Questionnaire (Keraskian, Mojembari and Kaiballah, 2014). The collected data were analyzed through mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 software. The results showed that acceptance and commitment therapy has significant effect on the emotional expression and sexual function in infertile women’s (p<0.001). According to the findings of the study it can be concluded that acceptance and commitment therapy can be used as an efficient method to increase the emotional expression and sexual function in infertile women’s through forming psychological resilience and making mental acceptance

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Journal of Applied Psychological Research

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 07 April 2024

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