Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

Effectiveness of choice theory Training on the Couples’ Marital Satisfaction and marital burnout

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Reznan Masoud Meidanchi 1
Abolghasem Yaghoobi 2
Kourosh Goodarzi 3
Javad Karimi 4
1 PhD Student in General Psychology, Boroujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Boroujerd, Iran.
2 Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Bu-Ali Sina, Hamedan, Iran.
3 Department of Psychology, Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, borujerd, Iran
4 Department of Psychology, School of Literature and Humanity Sciences, The University of Malayer, Malayer, Iran
10.22038/mjms.2021.20207
Abstract
Introduction: Family is considered the most important part of every society that maintaining its foundation can lead to the society growth. Therefore the present study was conducted aiming to investigate the effectiveness of choice theory training on the couples’ marital satisfaction and marital burnout Materials and Methods: The present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population included all the married couples with marital problems referring to consultation centers in the city of Hamedam in the autumn of 2018. 20 couples were selected through purposive sampling method and they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control group (each group of 10 couples). The experimental group received eight ninety-minute sessions of choice theoryintervention (Glasser, 2000) during two months. The applied questionnaires in this study included marital conflict questionnaire (Barati and Sanaei, 1996), marital satisfaction questionnaire (Enrich, 1998) and marital burnoutquestionnaire (Paienz, 1996). The data from the study were analyzed through ANCOVA and Bonferroni follow-up test using SPSS statistical software.
Results: The results showed that choice theorytraining has significant effect on the marital satisfaction and marital burnout (p<0.001) in a way that this training has succeeded in leading to the improvement of marital satisfaction (54%) and decrease of marital burnout (46%) in the couples.
Conclusion: The findings of the present study revealed that selection theory training can be used as an efficient method to improve marital satisfaction and decrease of marital burnout in the couples through employing techniques such as explaining internal and external control and accountability .
 
Keywords
choice theory training
marital satisfaction
marital burnout
couples
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Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences
Volume 64, Issue 5
March and April 2022
Pages 4108-4118