The Effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Therapy on Parenting Self-Efficacy and Distress Tolerance in Mothers with Insecure Attachment Styles
Journal of Family Relations Studies
مقاله 1 ، دوره 5، شماره 3 - شماره پیاپی 18 ، آبان 2025، صفحه 1-11 1.1 M )
نوع مقاله: Original Article
شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22098/jfrs.2025.17963.1255 نویسندگان
Niloofar Mikaeili* 1 Ali Salmani 2 Aysan Sharei 3 1 Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran2 Ph.D. Student, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran3 Ph.D. Student, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Kharazmi, Tehran, Iranچکیده Objective: The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy on parenting self-efficacy and distress tolerance in mothers with insecure attachment styles.Methods: The research method employed was a quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this study consisted of all mothers with an insecure attachment style during the 2024-2025 academic year in Ardabil. For this purpose, 30 mothers with an insecure attachment style were selected based on the study's entry criteria using purposive sampling. They were randomly assigned to two experimental groups (15 people) and one control group (15 people). Following a pre-test using the Parenting Self-Efficacy Scale by Dumka et al. (1996) and the Distress Tolerance Scale by Simons and Gaher (2005), the experimental group participated in 8 sessions (2 sessions per week) of 60-minute emotion-focused therapy as developed by Greenberg and Goldman (2019), while the control group maintained their normal routine. The data were analyzed using the multivariate analysis of covariance method in SPSS version 26 software.Results: The findings showed that there was a significant difference between the mean parenting self-efficacy (P≤0.001, F=13.98, ηp 2 =0.350) and distress tolerance (P<0.001, F=55.00, ηp 2 =0.679) of the experimental and control groups in the post-test. Thus, after implementing emotion-focused therapy, the mean scores of mothers with insecure attachment style in the experimental group increased significantly compared to the control group.Conclusion: As a result, emotion-focused therapy can help mothers with insecure attachment styles enhance their parenting self-efficacy and capacity to tolerate distress. This therapy enables mothers to evaluate and adjust their attachment style, ultimately fostering a secure attachment style.کلیدواژهها
Distress tolerance ؛ Emotion-focused therapy ؛ Mothers with insecure attachment style ؛ Parenting self-efficacy
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