Efficacy of Intimate Relationship Skills Combined Package and Training Marriage Enrichment on the Couples’ Interpersonal Interactive Damages

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1 PhD Student in Counseling, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan), Isfahan, Iran.

2 Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch (khorsagan), Isfahan, Iran

10.30465/ws.2021.33335.3142

Abstract

The couples’ interactive damages can destroy the family solidarity and seriously damage the couples’ and children’s mental health. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of intimate relationship skills combined package and training marriage enrichment on the couples’ interpersonal interactive damages. The current study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, control group and two-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the present study included the couples attending consultation centers in the town of Fereidounshahr in 2019 who got significantly higher-than-the-mean scores in the questionnaire of interpersonal interactive damages. 30 couples were selected through purposive sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 15 couples). The experimental group received twelve ninety-minute intervention sessions of training intimate relationship skills combined package and marriage enrichment during two and half months. The applied questionnaire in this study included interpersonal interactive damages questionnaire (researcher-made). The data taken from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement ANOVA. The results revealed that the combined package of intimate relationship skills and training marriage enrichment have significant effect on the couples’ interpersonal interactive damages (p < 0.001)

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