en تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:115%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><b><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Objective</span></b><b><span lang="EN" new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">:</span></b> <span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Bulimia nervosa is frequently associated with elevated rumination and early maladaptive schemas. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of compassion-focused therapy (CFT) in reducing rumination and early maladaptive schemas among women with bulimia nervosa.</span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:115%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><b><span lang="EN" new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Materials and Methods</span></b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">:</span></b><b> </b><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">This quasi-experimental study utilized a pretest-posttest control group design. Fifty women with a confirmed DSM-5 diagnosis of bulimia nervosa were recruited via convenience sampling from the Ahvaz Eating Disorders Association and randomly assigned to either an experimental group (n= 25) receiving compassion-focused therapy (8 sessions, 90 minutes each) or a no-intervention control group (n= 25). Rumination was assessed using the Rumination Response Scale (RRS), and early maladaptive schemas were measured with the 75-item Early Maladaptive Schema Questionnaire-Short Form. Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) in SPSS-25.</span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:115%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><b><span lang="EN" new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Results</span></b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="FA" new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">:</span></b> <span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">After controlling for pretest scores, women who received CFT showed significantly greater reductions in both rumination (<i>P</i>< 0.001) and early maladaptive schemas (<i>P</i>< 0.001) compared to the control group. Large effect sizes were observed for both outcomes (&eta;&sup2;> 0.70).</span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:115%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Conclusion:</span></span></span></b> <span style="font-size:10.5pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">CFT is an effective intervention for reducing rumination and early maladaptive schemas in women with bulimia nervosa. These findings support the clinical utility of CFT in targeting core cognitive-emotional maintenance factors in this population and suggest that it may be a valuable treatment option for bulimia nervosa.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> &nbsp; Self-compassion, Rumination, Bulimia nervosa, Women 53 67 http://ijdo.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-30-472&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Fatemeh Momeni 0009-0006-5857-800X No Department of Psychology, Ahv.C., Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran. Sasan Bavi 0000-0001-8929-4719 Yes Department of Psychology, Ahv.C., Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran. Karim Sevari 0000-0003-2971-2434 No Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. Zahra Eftekhar Saadi 0000-0002-6744-8577 No Department of Psychology, Ahv.C., Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran. Ali Khalafi 0000-0001-7743-8201 No Department of Psychology, Shad.C., Islamic Azad University, Shadegan, Iran.