The Effectiveness of education of Imago therapy on reducing regret of choosing spouse in married students

This study to aim was conducted the effectiveness of education of Imago therapy on reducing regret of choosing a spouse among Gonbad-Kavoos city schools marriage students. The design of research was a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest and follow up with the control group. The population of this study was marriage students of Gonbad-Kavoos. 30 students were selected base on a standard score of higher than the mean in the regret of choosing a spouse scale and were assigned randomly to an experiment and control groups. The participants completed the regret of choosing a spouse scale in three stages pre-test, post-test, and follow-up. The experimental group participated in imago therapy program 10 sessions for 90 minutes twice a week. The results of Covariance Analysis (ANCOVA) showed that the education of Imago therapy has been led to the reduction of the regret of choosing a spouse in the experimental group than the control group at posttest and follow-up stages. Based on the findings, we can conclude that Imago therapy is a suitable method for reducing the regret of choosing a spouse among the marriage students