Effectiveness of Emotion-focused Therapy-based Enrichment Program on Psychological Well-being, Marital Relationship Quality and Marital Satisfaction in Mothers of Children with Specific Learning Disabilities

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1 Assistant professor, department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr Branch, Bushehr, Iran. Email: Ezatdeyreh@gmail.com

2 PhD student in General psychology, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr Branch, Bushehr, Iran

Abstract

Background: Present study aimed to investigate effectiveness of couples’ relationships enrichment based on emotion-focused therapy on psychological well-being, and marital quality and satisfaction among mothers of children with specific learning disability. Method: This study was a semi-experimental work with pretest-posttest design and control group. The statistical population included mothers of children with specific learning disability referring to Talash clinic in district 1 of Tehran in 2017-2018. 30 mothers of children with specific learning disability were chosen as samples and randomly were divided into 2 groups (control and experimental). The experimental group was exposed to 8 sessions of couples’ relations enrichment based on emotion-focused therapy. Then, post-test was performed. For data collection, Ryff’s psychological well-being scale, Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale and marital satisfaction questionnaire were used. Data analysis was conducted using MANCOVA. Results: Statistical data analysis indicates that the enrichment program caused a significant improvement on psychological well-being, and marital quality and satisfaction of experimental group compared to the controls (P

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Razavi International Journal of Medicine
Volume 9, Issue 1
January 2021
Pages 63-68

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