The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based therapy on marital adjustment and boredom in women

The family is the most important unit of society and marriage is the primary core of establishing and expanding a family relationship. The level of marital satisfaction is one of the important factors that affect the family in general. The aim of this study was the effectiveness of acceptance and co...

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Main Authors: mojtaba aghili, Somayeh Mottaghizadeh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Iranian Association of Women's Studies 2022-11-01
Series:روانشناسی زن
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Online Access:http://psychowoman.ir/article-1-97-en.pdf
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description The family is the most important unit of society and marriage is the primary core of establishing and expanding a family relationship. The level of marital satisfaction is one of the important factors that affect the family in general. The aim of this study was the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based therapy on marital adjustment and boredom in women. This was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. And the statistical population was couples referring to the Welfare Counseling Center in District 9 of Mashhad, from which 30 women with marital incompatibility and boredom referred to the counseling center were selected by available sampling method and randomly divided into two groups. Experiment (n = 15) and control (n = 15) were completed and completed the marital adjustment and marital boredom questionnaires before and after the intervention. The experimental group received acceptance and commitment treatment in 8 sessions of 90 minutes once a week, but the control group did not receive any intervention until the end of the study. Data were analyzed using SPSS22 software and analysis of variance. The results showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of marital adjustment and marital boredom in the stages before and after the intervention (p<0.01). And the intervention increased the total score of marital adjustment and decreased marital boredom.Therefore, the use of acceptance and commitment therapy as an effective approach and effective intervention in increasing marital adjustment in women and as a solution to reduce psychological, physical and emotional symptoms of boredom and in other words reduce the overall boredom.
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spelling doaj.art-00ba8a86b87e4013b38c1a29c9fb185b2023-07-10T08:47:57ZengIranian Association of Women's Studiesروانشناسی زن2783-333X2022-11-01346878The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based therapy on marital adjustment and boredom in womenmojtaba aghili0Somayeh Mottaghizadeh1 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University Master of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Golestan, Iran. The family is the most important unit of society and marriage is the primary core of establishing and expanding a family relationship. The level of marital satisfaction is one of the important factors that affect the family in general. The aim of this study was the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based therapy on marital adjustment and boredom in women. This was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. And the statistical population was couples referring to the Welfare Counseling Center in District 9 of Mashhad, from which 30 women with marital incompatibility and boredom referred to the counseling center were selected by available sampling method and randomly divided into two groups. Experiment (n = 15) and control (n = 15) were completed and completed the marital adjustment and marital boredom questionnaires before and after the intervention. The experimental group received acceptance and commitment treatment in 8 sessions of 90 minutes once a week, but the control group did not receive any intervention until the end of the study. Data were analyzed using SPSS22 software and analysis of variance. The results showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of marital adjustment and marital boredom in the stages before and after the intervention (p<0.01). And the intervention increased the total score of marital adjustment and decreased marital boredom.Therefore, the use of acceptance and commitment therapy as an effective approach and effective intervention in increasing marital adjustment in women and as a solution to reduce psychological, physical and emotional symptoms of boredom and in other words reduce the overall boredom.http://psychowoman.ir/article-1-97-en.pdfacceptance and commitment based therapymarital adjustmentmarital burnout.
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The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based therapy on marital adjustment and boredom in women
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acceptance and commitment based therapy
marital adjustment
marital burnout.
title The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based therapy on marital adjustment and boredom in women
title_full The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based therapy on marital adjustment and boredom in women
title_fullStr The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based therapy on marital adjustment and boredom in women
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title_short The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based therapy on marital adjustment and boredom in women
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topic acceptance and commitment based therapy
marital adjustment
marital burnout.
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