Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Department of Counseling, Khomeinishahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khomeinishahr/Isfahan, Iran
2 Ph.D. student, Counseling Department, Khomeini Shahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khomeini Shahr/Isfahan, Iran
Abstract
Emotional failure is one of the major problems of people, so that it is directly related to the decrease in the level of well-being, dissatisfaction with life, anger and sadness. In this research, the purpose was to investigate the psychological consequences of emotional failure based on the lived experience of girls. In order to discover the lived experiences of girls, the qualitative method "Seven-Step Descriptive Phenomenology of Colaizzi" was used, which was evaluated with the criteria of believability, transferability, reliability and verifiability. The statistical population included all girls aged 20 to 25 who had experienced emotional failure living in the city of Isfahan, and the criteria for their entry was that at least one month and at most 12 months had passed since the end of their emotional relationship and they had not entered into a new emotional relationship. The participants were selected using purposive sampling and the sampling continued until the saturation of the data, i.e. reaching the number of 9 people. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview, each of which lasted between 50 to 70 minutes. The data were analyzed using the 7-step Colaizzi and MAXQDA software. 414 open categories, 7 middle categories and one main category were obtained from the analysis of girls' lived experiences of emotional failure. The main category was the psychological consequences and the intermediate categories included a decrease in self-worth and self-confidence, changes in various behavioral, physical, and cognitive dimensions, impairment in executive function, and occurrence of positive and negative emotions.
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