COMPARING FEELINGS OF LONELINESS COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS AND ATTITUDES TOWARD LIFE IN WOMEN WITH SECOND WIFE AND ORDINARY WIFE OF SHIRAZ

The present study compared the feeling of loneliness, cognitive distortions and attitudes toward life in the second wife and ordinary wife of Shiraz. In terms of the nature and objectives, the research is of causal-comparative (post-event) type and the statistical population includes 70 second wife-women who are targeted by sampling method And 70 normal women by multistage cluster sampling that was selected after homogenization (age, education, social class). To collect data, questionnaires were used to assess the emotional self-sufficiency of adults, Abdullah Zadeh cognitive distortions; attitudes toward the life of Batista and Almond have been used. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. At the level of descriptive statistics, statistics such as mean and standard deviation were used and at the level of inferential statistics, multivariate analysis of variance (Manawa) was used. The results showed that there is a meaningful relation between loneliness, cognitive distortions (except personalization) and attitude toward life in the second and normal wife. Cognitive distortions in the personalization component have no significant difference between the second wife and the normal wife. Keywords: loneliness, cognitive distortions, attitude towards life, second wife (polygamy).