Investigating the effectiveness of group counseling based on exchange behavior analysis on the social adjustment of divorced women in Ahvaz

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of group counseling based on exchange analysis of behavior on the social adjustment of divorced women. The sample of the present study consisted of ۳۰ divorced women from Ahvaz city, who were selected from among the volunteer women who referred to welfare clinics and randomly assigned to two experimental groups (۱۵ people) and control group (۱۵ people). The hypotheses of this research indicated the effect of group counseling based on exchange analysis of behavior on improving the adjustment of divorced women. The tools used in this study included the social adjustment scale ( SAS ) and the revised scale of Kevin Dom's communication skills. In addition to descriptive statistics, multivariate (mancova) and univariate (ancova) analysis methods were used for data analysis . The results of multivariate and univariate covariance analysis showed that group counseling based on behavioral contrast analysis improves the components of social adjustment, including adjustment in economic status, family relations and social activity, but on the adjustment components in kinship relations and parental role, as well as communication skills. Including the skill of insight in communication and regulation of emotions has no significant effect. An acceptable significance level for testing the research hypotheses was considered p =۰.۰۵ .

کلیدواژه ها:

exchange analysis of behavior ، social adaptation ، divorced women