Developing of Prevention of Divorce Training Package and Determination of its Effectiveness on Intimacy and quality of relationship of couples

Subject Areas : ‌Family

Shahpoor Ahmadi ¹ , Ali Mehdad ² , Narges Keshti Aray ³

1 - Ph.D Student, General Psychology, Khorasgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, khorasgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Esfahan, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Khorasgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

Received: 2018-10-01 Accepted : 2018-12-05 Published : 2018-11-22

Keywords: quality of relationship, intimacy, Prevention of Divorce Training Package,

Abstract :

the main purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of Iranian family strength system training package on marital satisfaction and emotional divorce on couples. The purpose of this research was developing of prevention of divorce training package and determination of its effectiveness on Intimacy and quality of relationship on employees of education organization of Urmia city. The method was qualitative - quantitative. Research environment of qualitative part was couples who were applicant for divorce. They were interviewed by Narrative inquiry and based on this interviews, the package was developed. In quantitative part of the research the population was employees of Urmia education organization (452person) and the method was quasi-experimental and the sample includes 60 married male and female who was selected by convenience sampling method and assigned randomly in experimental and control groups. Dependent variables of the study were Intimacy and quality of relationship. Research instruments were quality of relationship questionnaire of khoshkam(2006) and questionnaire of Intimacy brouck and berthman(1995).The data were analyzed by using repeated measurement variance analyses in SPSS 24. The results showed that training of the package could increase Intimacy and quality of relationship in experimental group. However, there was no significant difference in the control group after the intervention (p>0/05). Based on research results on effectiveness of package, it was suggested for the Iranian family court, marriage and family counseling centers and family training centers to implement this package in their training program.