1- Islamic Azad University
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Background and Objective: Domestic violence often means male assault on the spouse (female emotional partner). Domestic violence against women can be defined as any gender-based act or omission that results in death, physical, sexual or psychological harm and spiritual harm to women; which is created by people with or even without family ties who are connected through kinship or theological ties, including sporadic relationships. In other words; Violence against women is defined as behavior or even the threat of gender-based violent behavior that results in physical, sexual and psychological harm and suffering to women. According to this definition, the use of force and arbitrary deprivation of freedom for women, whether in the public or private sphere, is included in the definition of violence against women. . The reporting rate of domestic violence varies around the world and is reported in all socio-economic groups. Empirical evidence has shown that domestic violence has negative consequences on the quality of relationships and emotional and sexual emotions, and limits personal growth, productivity and physical and mental health of couples. Everyone faces trauma in life and goes through difficult situations, but not all of them react the same way to problems. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of coping therapy on the resilience and self-efficacy of women victims of domestic violence.
Method: The research method was quasi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a follow-up phase. The statistical population of the study included women aged 20 to 45 victims of domestic violence who visited the emergency centers of Babulsar city from December 20 to March 20, 2014. Of these, 32 were included in the study according to the eligibility criteria by the available sampling method and were randomly assigned to two groups, the test and the witness (16 people each). Members of the experimental group were exposed to 8 sessions of group confrontation therapy and the control group received no intervention. The data were collected using the Resilience Scale (Connor and Davidson, 2003) and Self-Efficacy (Scherrer et al., 1982) and then analyzed by analysis of variance with repeated measures at a significance level of 0.05.
Results: The findings showed that before the intervention between the mean (standard deviation) of the resilience scores of the two test groups (16/1+ 25/55) and the certificate (86/1+18/57) and between the mean (standard deviation) of the self-efficacy scores of the two groups Probation (19/1+ 87/49) and Certificate (31/1+75/57) No significant difference was observed (005/0P). In other words; The results of the repeated-measures analysis of variance showed that the effect of therapeutic coping on resilience and self-efficacy was significant (001/0>p). Also, coping therapy maintained its effect in the experimental group participants during the three-month follow-up period.
Conclusion: According to the results of the research, coping therapy was able to change the coping strategies of women victims of domestic violence to more compromised coping strategies by focusing on ineffective coping methods, which in turn increased their resilience and self-efficacy. Therefore, the use of non-pharmacological coping therapy intervention is effective in increasing resilience and self-efficacy in women victims of domestic violence and improves their psychological problems; Therefore, the implementation of coping therapy programs in support, treatment and counseling centers for women victims of domestic violence is recommended.