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Comparison of effectiveness Emotionally Focused Therapy and paradox therapy on Self-Critical Rumination, emotional expressiveness and sacrifice motives in married women with high anxiety

Comparison of effectiveness Emotionally Focused Therapy and paradox therapy on Self-Critical Rumination, emotional expressiveness and sacrifice motives in married women with high anxiety

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
IRCT
Registry ID
IRCT20251014067627N1
Enrollment
75
Registered
2025-10-17
Start date
2025-11-06
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-12-08

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Conditions

High anxiety. Generalized anxiety disorder

Interventions

Intervention 1: The first intervention group: Emotion-focused therapy: A combination of systemic perspectives, humanism, and attachment theory (Johnson et al., 2020). Emotion-focused therapy refers to

Sponsors

Islamic Azad University
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
Female
Age
30 Years to 65 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Willingness to participate in the study Married women between the ages of 30-65 Ability to read and write

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Having a chronic and severe physical or mental illness Drug addiction Participating in psychotherapy sessions at the same time or within 3 months prior to the study

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Self-critical rumination: Self-critical rumination is conceptualized as a process of judgment that specifically focuses on aspects of an individual that are shameful and that somehow indicate a lack of self-esteem. Also, this process is characterized by repetitive negative thinking. In this study, self-critical rumination refers to the score that an individual obtains on the Self-Critical Rumination Test by Smart et al. (2016). Timepoint: The present study is a quasi-experimental study based on a pre-test-post-test design and a two-month follow-up with a control group. In this design, the subjects will be measured before implementing the independent variable (pre-test), then the experimental intervention or independent variables will be applied. After that, the subjects will be measured again. Finally, after one month of the post-test, all three groups were measured again to examine the continuity of the effects of the interventions on the experimental groups. One of the experimental groups will receive the emotion-focused therapy approach based on the protocol of Susan Johnson et al. (2019) in the form of 9 60-minute sessions. The other group will also receive the paradox therapy experiment in 4 to 7 sessions according to the protocol of Besharat et al. (2019). Method of measurement: The measurement tool will include the Self-Critical Rumination Scale (SCRS) by Smart et al. (2016).;Emotional expressiveness: King et al. (1990) define emotional expressiveness as the external display of emotion, regardless of its value (positive or negative), through verbal means or facial and body expressions. In this study, emotional instrumentality refers to the score obtained from the King and Emmons (1990) Emotional Instrumentality Questionnaire. Timepoint: The present study is a quasi-experimental study based on a pre-test-post-test design and a two-month follow-up with a control group. In this design, the subjects will be measured before implementing the independent variable (p

Countries

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Contacts

Public ContactSima Hosseinpour Kahvaz

Islamic Azad University

sima.houseinpourkahvaz@iau.ac.ir+98 61 3338 0396

Outcome results

None listed

Source: IRCT (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026