Comparison of the Effectiveness of Emotional Intelligence Training and Social Skills Training on Symptoms of Love Damage and Cognitive Emotion Regulation in Women with Love Failure

Background: Love failure has the potential to lead to significant emotional harm in an individual.  Objectives: This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of emotional intelligence training and social skills training in the reduction of the effects of emotional damage and improvement of emotional regulation in women who have experienced love failure. Methods: The present semi-experimental research used a pre-test, post-test, and follow-up design and lasted three months, with two intervention groups and one control group. The target population for this research comprised women with the experience of love failure in Tehran, Iran from June to November, 2023. The study included 54 patients from four psychology clinics in the 10th district of Tehran, selected through purposive sampling and divided into two intervention groups and one control group (n=20 in each group). The emotional intelligence group underwent eleven 90-minute sessions twice a week, while the social skills group had ten 90-minute sessions twice a week. The data were collected by the Love Trauma Inventory and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Data analysis was conducted using analysis of variance, multivariate analysis of covariance, and Bonferroni post-hoc test in SPSS software (version 27). Results: The findings demonstrated that both interventions led to a decrease in these components. Moreover, the social skills approach did not have a significant impact on the positive refusal component, with no noticeable differences, compared to the control group (P=1.000).  Conclusion: The present study showed that both emotional intelligence training and social skills training were effective on the variable of love damage symptoms and its components.

Comparison of the Effectiveness of Emotional Intelligence Training and Social Skills Training on Symptoms of Love Damage and Cognitive Emotion Regulation in Women with Love Failure Keywords:

Cognitive regulation of emotions , Emotional intelligence training , Love failure , Signs of love damage , Social skills training