The effect of solution focused couple therapy on marital adjustment, marital relationship quality and social health in divorce applicant couples

Subject Areas : social psychology

Mohammad Mohammadipour ¹ , Narges Shojaei KalateBali ² , Abolfazl Bakhshipour ³

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Quchan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Quchan, Iran
2 - PhD Student of Counselling, Department of Counselling, Bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran

Received: 2020-08-26 Accepted : 2020-09-22 Published : 2021-02-19

Keywords: solution focused couple therapy# marital adjustment# marital relationship quality# social health# divorce applicant couples,

Abstract :

The aim of present research was determine the effect of solution focused couple therapy on marital adjustment, marital relationship quality and social health in divorce applicant couples. The research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest design with an experimental and control groups. The research population was divorce applicant couples referred to counseling center of Mashhad city in 2020 year. From population 30 couples were selected by available sampling method and randomly replaced into two equal groups including the experimental and control groups. The experimental group 7 sessions of 90 minutes received solution focused couple therapy and control group replaced on the waiting list for training. The research instruments were marital adjustment scale (Busby and et all, 1995), marital relationship quality inventory (Rust and Golombok, 2010) and social health questionnaire (Keyes, 1998). Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance method in SPSS version 19 software. The results showed that the experimental and control groups there were significantly different in terms of all three variables of marital adjustment, marital relationship quality and social health. In the other words, solution focused couple therapy led to improved marital adjustment, marital relationship quality and social health in divorced applicant couples (P <0.05). Based on the results, psychologists, therapists and health professionals can be use the solution focused couple therapy along with other treatment methods to improve health-related features, especially improving the marital adjustment, marital relationship quality and social health in divorced applicant couples.

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