Effectiveness of Divorce Prevention Package on Marital Distress in Couples Applying for a Agreement Divorce

Subject Areas : Tectonostratigraphy

mostafa mazaheri ¹ (Ph.D. Student, Department of Psychology, Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran)
Massoud Sadeghi ² (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran)
kourosh goodarzi ³ (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran)

Received: 2020-10-03 Accepted : 2021-07-18 Published : 2021-05-22

Keywords: Divorce prevention package, marital distress, agreement divorce,

Abstract :

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of divorce prevention package on the disturbance of couples of Apple's agreement divorce  in Isfahan.
Methods: This semi-experimental study was performed using pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population of the study was all referral couples referred to consulting counseling centers in order to conduct an agreed divorce consultation in Isfahan in 2020. From this community 30 couples were selected by available sampling method and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The subjects completed the marital disturbance questionnaire (wishman ​​et al., 2009) in two stages of pre-test and post-test. The experimental group undergoing a surprising divorce in the doctoral treatise under the name of the Divorce Prevention package in 14 sessions of 120 minutes in 5 weeks. Data were analyzed using repeated measure ANOVA.
Findings: The results showed that marital disturbance scores in the couples of the experimental group in post-test and follow up were significantly lower than the control group (p <0.05).
Conculsion:According to the findings of this study, it can be concluded that the divorce prevention package can be used as an interventional method in reducing marital distress of the apple divorce applicant.

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