Effectiveness of holographic reprocessing on affective control and difficulty in emotion regulating of Women Applicants for the Divorce Faced with Infidelity

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• mohammadnabi salehi ¹
• abdulzahra naami ²
• nesa kazemi ³
• ziba hamidi ⁴

¹ medical ilam university

² full professor departeman psychology. ahwaz university

³ mohaghegh ardabili

⁴ alzahra university

Abstract

Women Applicants for the Divorce Faced with Infidelity often react with distress, emotional exhaustion, and emotional exhaustion. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of holographic re-treatment on affective control and difficulty in emotion regulating of Women Applicants for the Divorce Faced with Infidelity.The present study was a pre-test and post-test semi experimental design with control group. Among all divorced women who referred to the emergency medical center of this city in Ilam city district in 2017, 30 people who had been confronted by wife's betrayal were selected by random sampling method and were randomly selected. They were assigned to intervention and control groups (each group was 15). The instruments used in this study were Mississippi PTSD scale, emotional control questionnaire (Williams & Chambles), difficulty in emotions regulation (Graz and Romer), and holographic re-treatment treatment package (Katz, 2005). Data were analyzed using SPSS-21 software and descriptive statistics and covariance analysis.The results of multivariate covariance analysis indicated that holographic reprocessing had a significant effect on affective control and difficulty in emotion regulating of Women Applicants for the Divorce Faced with Infidelity )F=1307/30 , p<0/000). The results of one-variable covariance test showed that there was a significant difference between two groups in affective control )F=2318/32 , p<0/000) and difficulty in emotion regulation (P <0.000, F = 173/02) There is. Holographic reprocessing treatment increases affective control and Recovery of difficulty in emotion regulationg in the Women Applicants for the Divorce Faced with Infidelity. During the treatment, the damaging memories are targeted. By turning to the traumatic scene and scene regeneration of the scene, evacuation and release of the emotional blockade of traumatic memories can be made.

Keywords

• Holographic Reprocessing
• affective control
• difficulty in emotion regulation
• Women Applicants for the Divorce
• infidelity

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