The Effectof Islamic-Ianian Reality Therapy on Couples’ Marital Satisfaction, Life Satisfaction, and Communication Skills Shiraz

Subject Areas : Educational

Hadis Moridi ¹ , mohammad bagher kajbaf ² , Armin Mahmoodi ³

1 - Department of Psychology, Yasuj Branch, Isalmic Azad University, Yasuj, Iran.
2 - Department of psychology,Faculty of Education&psychology,University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Yasuj Branch, Isalmic Azad University, Yasuj, Iran

Received: 2019-08-02 Accepted : 2019-12-28 Published : 2020-07-22

Keywords: رضایت از زندگی, واقعیت درمانی ایرانی اسلامی, رضایت زناشویی, مهارت‌های ارتباط زوجین,

Abstract :

This purpose of the research was to study the effect of Islamic-Iraian reality therapy on couples’ marital satisfaction, life satisfaction, and communication skills. Population included couples who referred to the counseling and psychiatric services Bahar of Shiraz who had marital conflicts. 30 couples were selected by convenience sampling. Then, they were randomly assigned to two control and experimental groups, of which size was 15 couples per group. The research method was semi-experimental with control group, pre-test, post- test. Islamic-Iraian reality therapy training package was used for training Islamic-Iraian reality therapy, which included 10 sessions per hour. Marital satisfaction( Ulsoon ,1998),Life satisfaction (Diner,1985) and Communication skills (Nooran,1967) scales were used to collect data. Data were analyzed by descriptive indices and analysis of covariance. findings showed that Islamic-Ianian reality therapy significantly affect all three variables including Marital Satisfaction, Life Satisfaction, and Communication skills (p≤0/0001), so that the mean of the variable in post-test of the experimental group was more than the control group.Therefore, it can be generally concluded that Islamic-Iraianreality therapy is a suitable method for increasing couples’ compatibility and marital satisfaction.It can be generally concluded that Islamic-Iraian realit.

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