| Summary: | High level of marital conflict will affect marital happiness, marital satisfaction,
psychological and physical health, and parenting that will decrease wives�
happiness or well-being. Low level of subjective well-being is characterized
by high level of negative affect, low level of positive affect, and low level of
marital satisfaction. This single-subject A-B research design tested the
effectiveness of Forgiveness Therapy in improving subjective well-being of
wives who had conflict with their husband. One wife who had conflict with
her husband participated in this research and received Forgiveness Therapy
in five meetings, 90-150 minutes each meeting. The subjective well-being
checklist based on the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) and
ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Scale (EMS Scale) was used to measure
subjective well-being, whereas Family Forgiveness Scale (FFS) was used to
measure forgiveness. The measurement of subjective well-being
administered once a week for sixteen weeks: three times at baseline phase,
ten times at treatment phase, and three times at follow-up phase. The data
was analyzed using visual inspection and descriptive analysis. The result
indicates that Forgiveness Therapy had improved subjective well-being of
wife who had conflict with her husband. Discussion for research�s result and
limitation was given.
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