The effectiveness of Problem solving and decision making skills on affective Control of women with marital conflict

Subject Areas : Woman and family

Somayeh Abolghasemi ¹ , Abbas Abolghasemi ² , Seyed Mousa Kafi Masoleh ³ , Reza Soltani Shal ⁴

1 - MA of psychology; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities; University of Guilan,Rasht,Iran
2 - * Professor of psychology; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities; University of Guilan,Rasht,Iran
3 - Associate Professor of psychology; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities; University of Guilan,Rasht,Iran
4 - Associate Professor of psychology; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities; University of Guilan,Rasht,Iran;

Received: 2019-07-07 Accepted : 2020-09-09 Published : 2020-11-21

Keywords: Marital conflict, affective control, Problem solving and decision making training,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of training problem solving and decision making skills on controlling women emotion with marital conflict. We employed a semi-experimental method with a pretest and posttest design on experimental and control groups. The population consisted of all women with marital conflict in the city of Najafabad. By using convenience sampling method, 24 women with marital conflict were selected and randomly divided into experimental and control groups (12 members in each group). The instruments used for this study were the marital conflict questionnaire (Olson, 2011) and Affective Control Scale) William and Chambless,1997 .(The experimental group participated in 10 sessions of training problem solving and decision making skills. The Participants of both group responded to questionnaires, before and after training.The results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed that the Problem solving and decision making skills is significantly effective on improving the positive affect and anxiety reduction of women with marital conflict of the experimental group compared to the control group (p < 0. 001). It was concluded that problem solving and decision making skills training could be used as a new and effective method for affective control in women with marital conflict. The results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed that the Problem solving and decision making skills is significantly effective on improving the positive affect and anxiety reduction of women with marital conflict of the experimental group compared to the control group (p < 0. 001). It was concluded that problem solving and decision making skills training could be used as a new and effective method for affective control in women with marital conflict. The results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed that the Problem solving and decision making skills is significantly effective on improving the positive affect and anxiety reduction of women with marital conflict of the experimental group compared to the control group (p < 0. 001). It was concluded that problem solving and decision making skills training could be used as a new and effective method for affective control in women with marital conflict.

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