Comparing the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy and Gottman Couple Therapy on Marital Satisfaction and Problem Solving Styles in Couples Referring to Counseling Centers in Lamard and Mohr City
Objective: The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral couple therapy and Gottman couple therapy on marital satisfaction and problem solving styles of couples. Methods: The statistical population is all the referrals to the counseling and psychological services cente...
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| author | S. Abdulmajid Mosavi Parvin Ehteshamzadeh Behnam Makvandi Reza Pasha Saeed Bakhtiaripoor |
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| description | Objective: The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral couple therapy and Gottman couple therapy on marital satisfaction and problem solving styles of couples.
Methods: The statistical population is all the referrals to the counseling and psychological services center in Mohr and Lamard cities in Fars province, Iran. Participants were 45 people that randomly selected and randomly assigned to cognitive-behavioral couple therapy group (15 people), Gottman couple therapy group (15 people) and control group (15 people). The ENRICH Marital Satisfaction (EMS) Scale was used to measure marital satisfaction and Cassidy and Long (1996) Problem-solving style questionnaire was used to measure problem solving styles. In order to analyze data, the mean and standard deviation were calculated in the descriptive statistics part and multivariate covariance analysis method was used in the inferential statistics part.
Results: According to the results, cognitive behavioral couple therapy had a significant effect on marital satisfaction and problem solving styles. Also, results indicated that Gottman couple therapy had a significant effect on marital satisfaction and problem solving styles.
Conclusions: According to the results there is a significant difference between two interventions in problem solving styles but there is no significant difference between two approaches. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-52f891dbd26d40ac9ec71cb0f919d79d2024-02-27T17:20:19ZengUniversity of HormozganIranian Evolutionary Educational Psychology Journal2588-43952023-12-0154253266Comparing the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy and Gottman Couple Therapy on Marital Satisfaction and Problem Solving Styles in Couples Referring to Counseling Centers in Lamard and Mohr CityS. Abdulmajid Mosavi0Parvin Ehteshamzadeh1Behnam Makvandi2Reza Pasha3Saeed Bakhtiaripoor4 PhD Student, Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University , Ahvaz, Iran Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University , Ahvaz, Iran Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University , Ahvaz, Iran Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University , Ahvaz, Iran Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University , Ahvaz, Iran Objective: The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral couple therapy and Gottman couple therapy on marital satisfaction and problem solving styles of couples. Methods: The statistical population is all the referrals to the counseling and psychological services center in Mohr and Lamard cities in Fars province, Iran. Participants were 45 people that randomly selected and randomly assigned to cognitive-behavioral couple therapy group (15 people), Gottman couple therapy group (15 people) and control group (15 people). The ENRICH Marital Satisfaction (EMS) Scale was used to measure marital satisfaction and Cassidy and Long (1996) Problem-solving style questionnaire was used to measure problem solving styles. In order to analyze data, the mean and standard deviation were calculated in the descriptive statistics part and multivariate covariance analysis method was used in the inferential statistics part. Results: According to the results, cognitive behavioral couple therapy had a significant effect on marital satisfaction and problem solving styles. Also, results indicated that Gottman couple therapy had a significant effect on marital satisfaction and problem solving styles. Conclusions: According to the results there is a significant difference between two interventions in problem solving styles but there is no significant difference between two approaches.http://ieepj.hormozgan.ac.ir/article-1-609-en.pdfcognitive-behavioral couple therapygottman couple therapymarital satisfactionproblem solving styles |
| spellingShingle | S. Abdulmajid Mosavi Parvin Ehteshamzadeh Behnam Makvandi Reza Pasha Saeed Bakhtiaripoor Comparing the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy and Gottman Couple Therapy on Marital Satisfaction and Problem Solving Styles in Couples Referring to Counseling Centers in Lamard and Mohr City Iranian Evolutionary Educational Psychology Journal cognitive-behavioral couple therapy gottman couple therapy marital satisfaction problem solving styles |
| title | Comparing the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy and Gottman Couple Therapy on Marital Satisfaction and Problem Solving Styles in Couples Referring to Counseling Centers in Lamard and Mohr City |
| title_full | Comparing the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy and Gottman Couple Therapy on Marital Satisfaction and Problem Solving Styles in Couples Referring to Counseling Centers in Lamard and Mohr City |
| title_fullStr | Comparing the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy and Gottman Couple Therapy on Marital Satisfaction and Problem Solving Styles in Couples Referring to Counseling Centers in Lamard and Mohr City |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparing the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy and Gottman Couple Therapy on Marital Satisfaction and Problem Solving Styles in Couples Referring to Counseling Centers in Lamard and Mohr City |
| title_short | Comparing the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy and Gottman Couple Therapy on Marital Satisfaction and Problem Solving Styles in Couples Referring to Counseling Centers in Lamard and Mohr City |
| title_sort | comparing the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral couple therapy and gottman couple therapy on marital satisfaction and problem solving styles in couples referring to counseling centers in lamard and mohr city |
| topic | cognitive-behavioral couple therapy gottman couple therapy marital satisfaction problem solving styles |
| url | http://ieepj.hormozgan.ac.ir/article-1-609-en.pdf |
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