ORIGINAL ARTICLE Received 16 June. 2020 Accepted 19 March. 2021 Vol. 10, Issue 2, 83-90, 2021 Academic Journal of Psychological Studies Print ISSN: 2375-7450 Online ISSN: 2333-0821 ajps.worldofresearches.com 83 April, 2021 The Effectiveness of Schema Therapy on Expressing Emotion and Quality of Women's Marital Relationship (Case Study: Women with Experience of Marriage under 15 Years Old) Shahrzad Yazdani *1 , Zohreh Sadeghi 2 , Maliheh Rabani 3 , Fatemeh Sadat Barghamadi 4 1. M.A. of General Psychology, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran. 2. M.A of General Psychology, Al-Mahdi Mehr Non-Profit Institute, Isfahan, Iran. 3. PhD Student in Health Psychology, Rudehen University, Tehran, Iran. 4. M.A. of Family Counseling, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran. A B S T R A C T The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of schema therapy on expressing emotion and quality of women's marital relationship (Case study: women with experience of marriage under 15 years old). The research method was quasi-experimental with post-test pretest design and control group. The statistical population of the study included all women with marriage experience under the age of 15 who referred to welfare counseling clinics in Tehran, District 12 in 2020, which was available to 40 people and randomly selected in experimental and control groups ( Each group (20 people) were assigned. In order to collect information, emotion expression questionnaire (King and Emmons, 1990) and relationship quality questionnaire (Fletcher et al., 2000) were used. The experimental group underwent schema therapy (8 sessions of 90 minutes); But the control group did not receive any intervention. Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance. The results showed that schema therapy was effective in increasing emotion expression and quality of marital relationship (p <0.05). According to the results, this treatment can be used to increase emotion expression and quality of marital relationship in women. He benefited from the couple's psychological and communication problems and in this way helped to reduce stress for these people. Keywords: Expression Of Emotion, Quality Of Marital Relationship, Schema Therapy. INTRODUCTION Marriage is one of the almost universal foundations of humanity. The family begins with marriage. Marriage is a relationship that a person enters into by choice and lasts for almost half a century. It can also be said that men and women adapt to change. Socially they marry each other(Soudani, Karimi, Mehrabizadeh, & Neisi, 2012). Marriage is one of the important social phenomena that has a very sensitive role on all aspects of human life and it is necessary to have the necessary physical, mental and social preparation for it; for this reason, in the legal laws of many countries in the world, the minimum age is considered for it(Nour, 2006; Pienta, Hayward, & Jenkins, 2000; Soleimani, Ahmadi, & Yosefnezhad, 2017). Determining the minimum age for * . Corresponding Author: yazdani.sh1978@gmail.com DOI: In prossing To cite this article: Yazdani, Sh., Sadeghi, Z., Rabani, M., Barghamadi, F. S. (2021). The Effectiveness of Schema Therapy on Expressing Emotion and Quality of Women's Marital Relationship (Case Study: Women with Experience of Marriage under 15 Years Old). Academic Journal of Psychological Studies, 10 (2), 83-90.