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Determination of effectiveness of Emotional- logical therapy on addictive spouses’ marriage conflict of visitor to addiction center of Zahedan
Mohammad Mojtaba Keikhayfarzaneh, Dr.Ahmad Reza Keikhayfarzaneh, Dr.Javad Khalatbari, Mohammad Sourizaei
Abstract—During recent years it seems that amount of divorcing Couples dissatisfaction of each other and missing link between families members are on the increase. The main purpose of this study is considering efficacy of emotional-logical therapy couples for decreasing aggression of married life in addicts Zahedan addiction relief center.This is experimental, pretest-posttest study. Between 280 referral cases,
120 cases with high level of married aggression set in two groups of 60 people accidentally. Married aggression questionnaire was used for collecting data. Couple treatment program was done in two hours 18 sessions. After Ending sessions post test was done for bot h groups. Data was analyzed by SPSS software.according to this study emotional-logical therapy couples has positive decreasing effect on aggressions “married (P<0.05), decreasing cooperation (P<0.01), decreasing libido (P<0.01), increasing emotional reaction (P<0.01), increasing individual relationship with relatives (P<0.05), increasing drawing children’s attention (P<0.01), decreasing familial relationship with spouse-in-law (P<0.01) and defining financial issues (P<0.01)”.According to results emotional- logical therapy couples can be effective in decreasing married aggression .it is recommended to make maximum use of this way of treatment for solving married aggression by more evaluation of this issue.
Index Terms— emotional- logical therapy couples, married aggression, addiction.
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NE of the Problems common to modern societies that is considered by couple therapists is marital conflicts. This problem may be of various forms and
is revealed as depression of one or both couple, addiction, growing violent behaviors among children, spouse abuse, verbal and physical conflict between the two couple, and may eventually leads to divorce [1]. Interpersonal conflict is defined as a kind of interaction that people express con- flicting orientations, view, and opinions, and some re- searchers are considered it as a normal event in the mar- ried life [2].
Marital satisfaction and marital adjustment have a main role in its continuity, because the existence of incompati- bility in spouses relationships leads to parent tasks diffi- culties and reducing mental physical health of spouses [3], low life satisfaction [4], having more lonely feelings and creating problems in social relationships [5], which each of these elements are considered as dangerous fac-
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Department of Psychology, Young Researcher Club, Zahedan Branch
,Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran.PH-+989389384191. E.mail
Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of
Sistan and Baluchestan , Zahedan, Iran.
Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch, Tonekabon, Iran.
Department of Electronics, Young Researcher Club, Zabol Branch, Islam-
ic Azad University, Zabol, Iran.
tors for becoming diseased. Therefore, the quality of ma- rital relationships is considered as an important indicator for being healthy [6].
Not only conflict threatens the stability of the relation- ships, but provokes more conflict, in fact, some of the elements of conflict will strengthen the relationships in the long run, while the other factors are destructive and are separation and divorce factors [7]. Researches show that the conflicts between spouses make children become stressful, fearful, and angry and incessant conflict expe- riences lead to physical and behavioral problems, and a long-time stress has an opposite effect on health [8].
All effective approaches to couple therapy are having therapeutic elements in treatment of depression com- bined with marital conflicts [9]. Couples who are able to solve the conflicts within their behaviors through apply- ing positive ways and using less negative interactions are creating an atmosphere which there is much opportunity for self-disclosure and agreement for family problems [10].
Albert Elis’s rational-emotional treatment is a compre-
hensive treatment approach that consider, and also at-
tack, a person’s problem from three perspectives, named
cognitive, emotional and behavioral, and tries to create
positive effects and a logical behavior and emotion
through desirable understanding [11].
This study is going to consider the irrational beliefs in
marital conflicts through logical-emotional couple thera-
py program, and because of the expansion of these prob-
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lems among families and the risks underlying and also the need in this respect, the research hypothesis are con- sidered as follows:
The main hypothesis:
-Logical-emotional couple therapy is effective in reducing
marital conflicts.
Subsidiary hypothesis:
-Logical-emotional couple therapy in effective in reducing
“decreased cooperation” conflict.
-Logical-emotional couple therapy is effective in reducing
“decreased sexual intercourse” conflict.
-Logical-emotional couple therapy is effective in “increas-
ing emotional reactions” conflict.
-Logical-emotional couple therapy is effective in “increas-
ing personal relationships with their relatives” conflict.
-Logical-emotional couple therapy is effective in “increas-
ing child support” conflict.
-Logical-emotional couple therapy is effective in “losing
family relationships with wife’s relatives” conflict.
-Logical-emotional couple therapy is effective in “separat-
ing finances” conflict.
The current research is of experimental and pretest- posttest with control group. Statistical population in- cluded 280 wives’ patients referred to drug addiction cen- ters in Zahedan, and after sampling, 120 people were cho- sen by a simple random sampling in two 60 man groups of experiment and control, which have high marital con- flicts. A pretest was implemented on the group two after
proving marital conflict questionnaire.
The questionnaire has 42 questions which are considered
for evaluating couple conflicts based on Sanaie’s clinical
experiences. These questionnaire measures seven clauses
of marital conflicts, which include: reduced cooperation,
reduced sexual intercourse, increasing emotional reac-
tions, increasing personal relationships attraction with
relatives, reduced family relationships with wife’s family
and separating finances from each other. The reliability and validity of this questionnaire has been considered in
Iran. Then logical-emotional couple therapy program is implemented in 18-hour sessions for experiment group once a week. A post-test was applied for the both groups after the therapeutic program was ended. The data were evaluated and analyzed through SPSS software and using paired T-test.
The questionnaire of couple conflicts consists of seven subscales, which their reliability coefficient is obtained by Cronbach alpha at the beginning. The reliability coeffi- cient is obtained as 71% for all the tests through Cronbach alpha, 73% for reduced cooperation subscales, 73% for reduced sexual intercourse, 80 % for increasing emotional reactions, 78 % for increasing personal relationships with relatives, 68% for increasing child support, 71% for re- duced family relationships with wife’s relatives and 83% for separating finances, which all coefficients were very close to 7/0 or above.
TABLE 1
MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATION OF MARITAL CONFLICTS IN THE GROUPS OF EXPERIMENT AND CONTROL
Reduced 14.36 13.98 10.61 14.11 3.14 3.21 3.29
Coope-ration
Reduced 12.38 12.15 11.36 12.19 3.10 3.19 2.56 3.27
Sexual i ntercourse
Increasing 22.36 21.75 19.16 22.11 6.24 5.17 4.94 5.21
Emotional reactions
Increasing 20.18 21.01 17.91 21.11 65.63 5.24 4.91 5.41
Personal Relationships with relatives
Increasing 13.88 13.54 12.41 13.61 2.78 3.11 3.66 3.51 support
attraction
Reduced family 16.88 15.35 12.15 16.11 6.82 5.19 4.24 5.75
Relationships
With wife’s family
finance
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TABLE 2
THE RESULTS OF T-TEST FOR COUPLE CONFLICTS
Conflicts | DF | T | Sig |
Reduced cooperation | 59 | 7.11 | 0.00 |
Reduced Sexual intercourse | 59 | 3.58 | 0.00 |
Increasing Emotional Reaction | 59 | 3.81 | 0.001 |
Increasing Personal Relationships with Wife’s relatives | 59 | 5.56 | 0.001 |
Finances separation | 59 | 2.9 | 0.00 |
Marital conflicts | 9.6 | 0.02 |
According to paired sample T-test results in Table 2, we conclude that logical-emotional couple therapy is effec- tive in reducing marital conflicts (p<0.005), reduced co- operation (p<0.001), reduced sexual intercourse (p<0.001), increasing emotional reactions (p<0.001), in- creasing personal relationships with relatives (p<0.005), increasing child support attraction (p<0.001), reducing familial relationships with wife’s relatives (p<0.001), and finances separation (p<0.01).
The current study is conducted by the aim of consider- ing the logical-emotional therapy effectiveness in reduc- ing marital conflicts of the wife’s addicted ones who re- ferred to drug addiction centers. In this study it is shown that logical-emotional couple therapy is effective in re- ducing marital conflicts, reduced cooperation, reduced sexual intercourse, increasing emotional reactions, in- creasing personal relationships with relatives, increasing child support attractions, reduced familial relationships with wife’s family and finances separation.
Generally speaking, the results of this research are, in most cases, compatible with the other studies on logical-
emotional couple therapy effects on marital conflicts [12]-
[13]-[14]-[15]-[16].
Eventually, it is recommended that the researches similar to this one be conducted in non-academic environments as well as be used treatment and training of other tech- niques to reduce marital conflicts, and be performed in other studies and areas with more volume for increasing the generalization capability, and also be considered the extent of effectiveness of these methods in premarital education and enhancing forecasting power of the couple’s situations in the incidence of conflicts.
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