Family Psychology
Sara Ebrahimi; Seyedeh Elham Mousavian Khatir
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Introduction Although research findings indicated the adverse and negative effect of parenting stress on mothers' marital satisfaction, the internal mechanism of this relationship and the effect of father's behavior on marital problems have not been investigated. The importance of studying the father's ...
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Introduction Although research findings indicated the adverse and negative effect of parenting stress on mothers' marital satisfaction, the internal mechanism of this relationship and the effect of father's behavior on marital problems have not been investigated. The importance of studying the father's behavior is because the problems of married life are related not only to the mother's behavior but also to the father's behavior. Also, considering that high levels of stress in raising children harms the mother's physical and mental health and endangers the normal functioning of the family, the present study aims to: First, provide research support for family studies by examining the relationship between mother's parenting stress and her marital satisfaction. Second, provide a model to investigate the mechanism of depression and marital conflict in the relationship between parenting stress and marital satisfaction. Third, past studies of couple relationships have ignored the possible effects of empathy. In this study, father's tendency instead of empathy ability was used as a moderator in the relationship between mother's parenting stress and marital satisfaction with the mediation of depression and marital conflict.MethodThe research method was descriptive and correlation type. The studied population included all the employed couples with children from Tehran in 1401, and 212 couples were selected as a sample using convenience sampling method. Mothers responded to the Parenting Stress Scale (Berry & Jones, 1995), Self-Rating Depression Scale (Zung, 1965), Conflict Behavior Scales (Rusbult et al., 1986 and Strauss, 1979) and Marital Satisfaction Scale (Olson et al., 1982) and fathers responded to the Basic Empathy Scale (Jolliffe & Farrington, 2006). In order to analyze the data, Pearson's correlation and multiple regression (models 6 and 85) were used in Hayes Process in SPSS24 software.ResultsThe findings indicated that mother’s parenting stress has a negative correlation with their marital satisfaction, depression and marital conflict play a mediating role in the relationship between mother’s parenting stress and their marital satisfaction, and fathers' empathy tendency also moderates this relationship. This means that fathers can with empathy for mothers, reduce depression and marital conflicts caused by parenting stress and finally their low levels of marital satisfaction.ConclusionIn sum, these findings highlighted the serious impact of mother’s parenting stress of in keeping and caring for their children on their mental health and quality of life together, as well as the important role of fathers' empathy in reducing these consequences. The results can be used to design an intervention and a comprehensive approach to improve the mental well-being of mothers.
farzaneh bidari; azita amirfakhraei; Eghbal Zarei
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The present study was conducted aiming to investigate the effectiveness of schema therapy on the irrational beliefs and emotional self-regulation of the women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemata. it was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group design and a ...
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The present study was conducted aiming to investigate the effectiveness of schema therapy on the irrational beliefs and emotional self-regulation of the women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemata. it was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group design and a two-month follow-up stage. The statistical population of the study included the women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemata who referred to consultation centers in the city of Tehran in the autumn and winter of 2019-2012. 40 women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemata were selected through purposive sampling method and they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 20). The experimental group received the schema therapy in ten ninety-minute sessions during two months. 4 people from the experimental group were excluded from the study and so were 3 people from the control group. The applied questionnaires in this study included irrational beliefs questionnaire (Jones, 1969), emotional self-regulation questionnaire (Gross, John, 2003), marital conflict (Barati and Sanaie, 1997) and early maladaptive (Yang, 1998). The data from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement ANOVA. The results showed that schema therapy has significant effect on the irrational beliefs and emotional self-regulation of the women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemata (p<0.001). In this way, this treatment has been able to reduce irrational beliefs and increase emotional self-regulation of the women with marital conflict with early maladaptive schemata.
Seyed Mohammad Musavi; Hossein Samavatyan; Aboulghasem Nouri
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Introduction The entry of women into the workplace has changed the traditional roles of the family, which can cause instability and marital conflicts in the dual-career couples. The purpose of the present study sought to study simultaneously the quality of work life and the enrichment of marital life ...
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Introduction The entry of women into the workplace has changed the traditional roles of the family, which can cause instability and marital conflicts in the dual-career couples. The purpose of the present study sought to study simultaneously the quality of work life and the enrichment of marital life on marital conflicts and marital instability of dual- career couples in Illam. Method The design of this research is quasi-experimental, with pre-test, post-test, and fallow-up with control group. The statistical population includes all married couples from the city of Illam who were married from the beginning of March 2012 to the beginning of March 2017, and have goverment jobs. For this purpose, 80 (40 couples) of dual- career couples were selected usingmulti-stage cluster sampling method and randomly assigned to two groups. The experimental group received Quality of Work Life and Relationship Enhancement programs together, during the 13 sessions of 90 minutes. The instruments of this study were Marital Conflict Questionnaire and Marriage Instability Index. Results The results show that simultaneously the quality of work life and the enrichment of marital life training have been able to reduce marital conflicts (F = 17.78, p < 0.01) and marital instability (F = 41.03, p < 0.01). The marital life enrichment training reduced family conflict and instability by improving family interaction. The quality of work life training also contributed to the improvement of the work environment, which reduced the contradictions and conflicts in the workplace. Discussion Therefore, the simultaneous training of working life quality and enriching marital life prevent overflowing work and family problems. This also improves relationships in the family and work, and as a result reduce marital conflicts and instability. Then, the simultaneous training of working life quality and enriching marital life can reduce dual-career couples’ family conflicts and instability.
S. Bashkar; M. Sodani; M. Shehni Yailagh
Volume 19, Issue 1 , June 2012, , Pages 199-226
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This study has examined the effect of anger management skills training in reduction of marital conflicts among the couples reffered to Problem-Solving Committee of Baghmalek. The population of this study includes the couples that had been reffered to Baghmalek's Problem-Solving Committee .This population ...
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This study has examined the effect of anger management skills training in reduction of marital conflicts among the couples reffered to Problem-Solving Committee of Baghmalek. The population of this study includes the couples that had been reffered to Baghmalek's Problem-Solving Committee .This population was consisted of 20 couples (40 men and women) who were married for 2 years at least, and had at least one child. They were selected by simple random sampling and assigned randomly to experimental and control groups. To administer the experiment, both experimental and control groups took the pre-test. Then, during 8 sessions, the treatment was administered to experimental group and then the post-test was taken. The instrument used in this study was Marital Conflict Test. The results of one-way analysis of variance and MANOVA showed that anger management skills reduced the total marital conflicts and other subscales, in experimental couple.
