Effectiveness of sex enrichment training on the couple's marital satisfaction and happiness
Subject Areas : Journal of Educational PsychologyMina Mojtabaie 1 , Marzie Razzaghi Sefat 2
1 - Assistant Professor. Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch, Roudehen, Iran
2 - Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch, Roudehen, Iran
Keywords: sex, Happiness, Enrichment, marital satisfaction,
Abstract :
The purpose of the present research is to determine the effectiveness of sex enrichment training on the couple’s marital satisfaction and happiness, among all married women who were referred to Farhang health home in Tehran twelfth district in 2014. This study was a semi-experimental study using pre-test post-test with control group. The statistical population of this research were all married women who were referred to Farhang health home in Tehran twelfth district in 2014 and the sample of the study included 40 married women that randomly divided into two groups of 20, a control group and an experimental group. To measure the variables in the study, marital satisfaction standard questionnaire and Oxford happiness questionnaire were used. The questionnaires were administered to both groups as a pre-test and then the experimental group received 10 sessions (each session 2 hours) of sex enrichment training, and two weeks after the last session the post-test was performed for both groups. In this study, single variable analysis of covariance (ANCONA), multi variable analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) and T-test for independent groups was used for data analysis. The results showed that the sex enrichment training in increasing happiness (t=4/693) and marital satisfaction (t=2/400) was effective and also, the training is effective for component of the marital satisfaction such as life satisfaction, personal issues, communication, conflict resolution and sexual intercourse (f=7/317).