The effectiveness of schema therapy on dark future and hope in marriage in single girls with divorced parents

Maryam Abbaspour Gel Sefidi¹

1) Master of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Naein Branch, Islamic Azad University, Naein, Iran.

IOI Code : XEBA-GHBAK
Publication : Second National Conference on Futurism in Psychology and Educational Sciences(femconf.ir)
Abstract :
    The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of schema therapy on dark future and hope in marriage in single girls with divorced parents. This experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population was all single girls with divorced parents of Esfehan city in year 1401. In first, 30 people were selected by available sampling method and then randomly divided into experimental and control groups (15 experimental and 15 control). For the people in the experimental group, the schema therapy was implemented in 10 sessions; each session lasting 90 minutes by Young and et al (2003), but the control group received no training and remained in the waiting list. The instruments used in this study include dark future scale (DFS) of Zaleski and et al (2019) and adult dispositional hope scale (ADHS) of Snyder and et al (1991). Data analysis was performed using SPSS-24 software in two sections: descriptive (mean and standard deviation) and inferential (multivariate analysis of covariance). Results indicated that schema therapy, significantly improvement dark future and hope in single girls with divorced parents (P<0.05). It can be concluded that that schema therapy can be used as an effective intervention in order to improvement the dark future and hope in single girls with divorced parents.

Keywords : schema therapy dark future hope single divorced