The effectiveness of positive psychotherapy on marital adjustment and happiness in women with marital conflicts

Abdolghaderi, Marie; Kafie, Seyed Mosa; Basharpoor, Sajjad

doi:10.22055/jacp.2019.27929.1104

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Student of Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardebil, Iran

² Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

³ Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardebil, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22055/jacp.2019.27929.1104

Abstract

Helping and soporting from family upon to disorgnazation and its protect is a necessery criterian of progress cevilization of promotion of human and social material and spiritual. This study was conducted the effectiveness of group positive psychotherapy on marital adjustment and happiness 30 women of to aim counseling centers of Rasht city were selected by using convenient sampling method and was assigned to experiment and control groups. The meth of research was quasi- experimental with pertest-post-test and control group. For women in experimental group implemented group positive psychotherapy in eight sessions weekly. Subjects of tow group were assessed by Spanier dyadic adjustmen scale and Oxford Happiness Inventory. In pretest and posttest step. Result of covariance analysis showed that group positive psychotherapy increased marital adjustment and happiness of women who were refers to counseling center )p < 0.005). Based on this, positive psychotherapy seems to be a short-term effective treatment of marital adjustment and happiness in women with marital conflicts.

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psychology

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The effectiveness of positive psychotherapy on marital adjustment and happiness in women with marital conflicts

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Volume 3, Issue 1
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The effectiveness of positive psychotherapy on marital adjustment and happiness in women with marital conflicts

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Volume 3, Issue 1May 2017Pages 59-72

Volume 3, Issue 1
May 2017
Pages 59-72