Document Type : Research Article
Authors
1 PhD Student in Counseling, Department of Psychology and Counseling, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran..
2 Assistant professor, Department of psychology and counseling, Faculty of Humanities, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran.
3 Professor, yazd Brannch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran.
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to develop and validate a native counseling package before remarriage for divorced women. During the past decades, divorce in Iran had an upward trend. Following the increasing number of divorces in societies and the transformation of families, remarriage is gaining meaning and meaning as a justified and logical method, and the rate of remarriage will increase in accordance with the increase in the rate of divorce and widowhood. The remarriage ratio of divorced Iranian men is 6% higher than western men, and the remarriage ratio of divorced Iranian women is 25% lower than western women. In Iran, research have reported a high level of willingness to remarry among female heads of households. But this statistic shows the fact that a significant part of women after divorce and the death of their spouse, despite their desire to remarry, are less likely to remarry compared to men, and we see a gender difference in remarrying. The number of unmarried women who are left alone due to the death of their spouses is 6 times more than men whose spouses died, and the number of divorced women is 2 times more than separated men.
Method
The current research plan is applied in terms of its purpose and in terms of the method of data collection, it is a mixed method research. The stage of developing the model is the qualitative part of the research and is of the type of "lived experience of experts" and "thematic analysis" and "contextual". The statistical population of the qualitative part includes all divorced women from Yazd or living in Yazd who have a history of remarriage for at least 6 months, among which a number of people who had rich information about the studied phenomenon were selected by purposeful sampling method and The semi-structured interview answered the researcher's questions, the number of participants was selected based on the saturation criterion, and after interviewing 15 people, we reached the saturation stage.
Results
The texts of the interviews were extracted using the analysis coding method, 27 codes, 4 main themes (themes) and 14 sub-themes (categories) were extracted from the lived experiences of divorced women with a history of remarriage. Also, psychological theories, theories related to marriage and divorce, counseling methods used by domestic and foreign counselors and experts, and religious teachings related to marriage were examined, and a pre-remarriage counseling model was developed in 11 sessions (45 to 60 minutes). To validate the pre-remarriage counseling package designed, the package was given to 10 professors and psychology experts in the field of marriage and family and with Delphi validation technique and using quantitative methods (Wilcoxon coefficient), content validity (CVR) and validity.
Discussion
The results confirmed the validity of the compiled consultation package. One of the vulnerable sections of the society are women heads of households who are responsible for their lives and children due to divorce or the death of their husbands. No matter how much social support is provided to this group, there remains an unfulfilled need that can only be solved through successful remarriage. In this research, an attempt was made to investigate the lived experience of divorced women regarding remarriage. According to the results obtained from the interviews with women with a history of remarriage, cases related to remarriage fall into 4 general categories of remarriage challenges, remarriage obstacles, remarriage success factors, and remarriage motivation. Raising and maintaining children, different financial perspectives, re-parenting and one of the most important challenges of remarriage, stereotypical views of married women and previous marriage background are among the most important obstacles to remarriage and marital skills and during the time of getting to know one of the most important the most important success factors in remarriage are economic security, satisfying emotional-sexual needs and reducing social vulnerability.
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