The Effectiveness of Marital Satisfaction Model on Increasing the Sexual Quality of Couples

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD student, Consulting Department, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.

2 Associate Professor of Counseling Department, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran. (Corresponding author)

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.

4 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran

Abstract

Introduction
Marriage is one of the most important events in life. A successful marriage and starting a marital relationship will satisfy many physical and psychological needs in a safe environment. This study was conducted with the aim of the effectiveness of the marital satisfaction model on increasing the sexual quality of couples.
Material and Method
In terms of the research method, the present study is the analysis of structural relations for developing a correlation type model. The research population included all married men and women who referred to the laboratory of the family clinic and the specialized clinic of Quds Hospital in Sanandaj. To determine the sample size in this research, 500 subjects were selected using available sampling method and research tools were implemented on them. The research tools in this study are the questionnaires of Nathan H.'s Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire. Azrin, Barry T. Naster and Robert Jones (1973), the questionnaire of the quality of sexual life of women by Simmonds et al. (2005) and the quality of sexual life of men by Pakpour et al.
Results
The obtained results show that there is a significant difference between the average scores of the post-test of the quality of sexual life of women in the control and experimental groups, and there is also a significant difference between the average scores of the post-test of the quality of sexual life of men in the two groups of the control and the experiment (p< 0.05).
Conclusion
To improve marital quality, it is necessary to focus more on "marital satisfaction".

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