The Effectiveness of Online Resilience Group Training on the Desire for Divorce, Forgiveness, Hope and Cognitive Flexibility in Women with Marital Infidelity

The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of online resilience group training on the desire for divorce, forgiveness, hope, and cognitive flexibility in women with experience of marital infidelity. The research method was quasi-experimental and pretest-posttest with the control group. The statistical population of the study included women with experience of marital infidelity in Isfahan and referring to counseling centers in 1400. 30 people were selected by purposive sampling and randomly divided into two experimental and control groups (15 people in each group) and responded to the Divorce Tendency Scale (Rusbult et al, 1986), the Forgiveness Questionnaire (Mullet et al, 2003), the Life Expectancy Questionnaire (Snyder et al, 1991), and the Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (Dennis et al, 2010). For the experimental group, resilience training was held in 10 sessions of one hour and once a week. Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance. The findings showed that by controlling the pre-test effect, there is a significant difference between the post-test average of the two experimental and control groups in the variables of desire for divorce (F=5/73, P=0/026) and cognitive flexibility (F=9/57, P=0/005), but there is no significant difference in the variables of forgiveness (F=2/22, P=0/150) and hope (F=3/19, P=0/087). Based on this, it can be concluded that the resilience online group intervention was effective in the desire for divorce and cognitive flexibility.