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The Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Instruction on Increasing of Marital Adjustment in Couples with Marital Conflict
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Zahra Valipoursheikhi   , Fazlolah Mirederikvand * |
| Lorestan University, Khorram Abad, Iran , mirfazlolah@yahoo.com |
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Abstract: (4534 Views) |
Introduction: Marital maladjustment is one of the serious problem that serve as the cause of divorce and domestic violence in many families.
The aim of this research was to study the effectiveness of emotion regulation instruction on marital adjustment of couple with marital conflicts.
Methods: The design of this research was experimental with pre-post tests and randomly assignment of subjects. As for severity of clients problems who referring to advocacy offices and to study the effectiveness of emotion regulation of this critical population, the sample included all couples with marital conflicts who searched Khorram Abad advocacy offices during June to October 2017. The subjects instructed by 8 session’s emotion regulation on the basis of Gross model of emotion regulation instruction (1976). Instrument included Spanier Marital adjustment Questionnaire (1976) which completed by subjects before and after intervention. For analyzing the data multiple analysis of covariance statistical method has used.
Results: The results showed that marital satisfaction scores increased in comparison to baseline. It was exactly unfold that the subscales of affective presentation, couple adhesion, couple agreement and couple satisfaction meaningfully increased after the intervention.
Conclusions: emotion regulation instruction can improve marital satisfaction of couple with marital conflicts and it is emphasized on use of this instruction because of its effectiveness on increasing couple marital adjustment and decreasing of marital problem and it is proposed for application of this model by specialists and cooperative work of advocacy offices with counseling centers to preventing divorce that has irreparable outcomes.
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| Keywords: Emotion Regulation, Marital Satisfaction, Marital Conflicts |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2018/01/9 | Published: 2019/05/15 | ePublished: 2019/05/15
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