Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to compare the
effectiveness of affect phobia therapy and emotion focused
therapy on emotional inhibition of women with low marital
satisfaction .
Materials and Methods: The current research is part of the
semi-experimental designs with pre-test, post-test, follow-up
with three groups. The statistical population of the present
study was made up of women with marital problems who
referred to counseling centers in Tehran in 2021. For the first
sampling, an interview and a marital satisfaction questionnaire
were conducted with volunteers who were introduced by the
counseling center as a screening test. After stating the
objectives and implementation process of the research and
checking the entry conditions, 45 people were randomly
selected from among the eligible women and randomly
assigned to two experimental groups (15 people in each group)
and a control group (15 people). The research tools included
Bakker et al.'s Emotional Inhibition Questionnaire (2007). The
data of the research were analyzed using repeated measure
analysis of variance .
Findings: The results of data analysis showed that emotion
focused therapy and affect phobia therapy had a significant
effect on emotional inhibition in women with marital problems
compared to the control group .
Conclusion: Also, the reduction rate in the group based on
emotion-ori focused therapy in the suppression component in
the variable of emotional inhibition was higher than in the
group of affect phobia therapy.