The effectiveness of cognitive behavioral couple therapy on the quality of life and marital satisfaction of uncompromised divorce applicants
Subject Areas : Woman and familyMaryam Borhani kakhki 1 , Mohammad Narimani 2 , Tavakkol Mousazadeh 3
1 - PhD. Student of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran.
2 - * Professor, Department of Psychology, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran.
Keywords: quality of life, marital satisfaction, Cognitive behavioral couple therapy, Divorce applicant,
Abstract :
Satisfactory and life quality of the couples shows the desirable performance of the family. The aim of the presented study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral couple therapy on quality of life and marital satisfaction of the couples who are uncompromised divorce applicants, to achieve an effective method in pre-divorce interventions. The quasi-experimental method was used with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population of the study was all divorce applicants who referred to Karaj family court in 2018. The samples were purposefully selected based on entry and exit criteria and 30 uncompromised couples were randomly divided into two groups with 15 couples. The collection tools included demographic information questionnaire, World Health Organization quality of life questionnaire consist of 26 questions, Enrich marital satisfaction questionnaire (short form). Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance in SPSS23 software. The results showed that cognitive-behavioral couple therapy has a significant effect on increasing the quality of life and marital satisfaction of uncompromised couples (p = 0.001), its effect on increasing the marital satisfaction was 83.7% and on increasing their quality of life was 69.5% (0.05>P). According to the research findings, cognitive-behavioral couple therapy is an effective way to improve the quality of life and marital satisfaction of divorce applicants.
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