Draft:Rozhina khodabandeh

counselor and psychologist
Rozhina Khodabandeh was born on December 21, 1996, in Bandar Abbas. She is a counselor and psychologist, holding a bachelor's degree from Islamic Azad University in Islamshahr and a master's degree from Azad University in Garmsar. She is fluent in three languages: Persian, English, and Turkish. She is currently married and resides in Tehran.Her father ,Kourosh Khodabandeh, is a public physician, and her mother, Zahra Tabasi , is also a specialist pediatrician.

For over two years, Rozhina has worked as a counselor at Khaneh Shireen and Zehn Ziba clinics, and has also been active as a counselor at Razi Hospital in Tehran. Additionally, she has been involved as a psychologist in the Behnam Dehshpour Charity, providing emotional support to children with cancer.

Her words about perfectionism

Rozhina states that from a young age, she participated in various psychology classes and workshops to address the challenges of adolescence, realizing that through these experiences, she could better solve her problems and make better decisions. Her interest in psychology was further fueled by her mother, who was a member of the medical staff and always emphasized the importance of mental and emotional well-being alongside physical health.

Rozhina's area of expertise is couples therapy, and she has written her thesis on the topic of "Predicting Marital Intimacy Based on Emotional Regulation and Self-Compassion Strategies in Couples Under Infertility Treatment."

Abstract

This study aimed to predict marital intimacy based on emotion regulation and self-compassion strategies. The main question was whether there is a relationship between intimacy in couples undergoing infertility treatment and emotion regulation and self-compassion strategies. This research was a descriptive and correlational study. The statistical population included all infertile couples who referred to the infertility center in the summer of 2022, and 200 of them were selected as the sample using convenience sampling method. In this study, the MINQ questionnaire for assessing intimacy needs, the CERQ questionnaire for cognitive emotion regulation, and the SCQ questionnaire for self-compassion were used as tools, all of which have good validity and reliability. Finally, regression and correlation models were used to analyze the data, and the findings showed that predicting marital intimacy based on emotion regulation and self-compassion styles was significant. In addition, the components of excessive self-referencing, negative emotion regulation style, and self-compassion had a significant negative relationship with marital intimacy. Bagarozzi, D. A. (2014). Enhancing intimacy in marriage: A clinician's guide: Routledge. Bloch, L., Haase, CM &Levenson, RW., (2014). Emotion regulation predicts marital satisfaction: more than a wives' tale. Emotion,14(1), 130-44.

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Chan, C. H. W., To, M. S., & Wong, L. Y. K. (2015). Intimacy as a distinct construct: validating the intimacy scale among older adults of residential care homes in Hong Kong. The open family studies journal, 7, 60-67.

D’Avanzato, C., Joormann, J., Siemer, M., and Gotlib, I.H. (2013). Emotion Regulation in Depression and Anxiety: Examining Diagnostic Specificity and Stability of Strategy Use. Cogn Ther Res 37:968–980.

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Yang, Y., Zhang, M., & Kou, Y. (2016). Self-compassion and life satisfaction: The mediating role of hope. Personality and Individual Differences, 98, 91-95.

Zuraida S. (2010). Psychological distress among infertile woman: exploring biopsychosocial response to infertility. Malas J Psychiatry; 19(2):1-11.