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Pourakbari S, Moghtader L. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MARITAL RELATIONSHIP ENRICHMENT EDUCATION ON FAMILY SOLIDARITY, INTIMACY, AND MARITAL COMMITMENT IN WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE. Nursing and Midwifery Journal 2020; 18 (4) :276-286
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MARITAL RELATIONSHIP ENRICHMENT EDUCATION ON FAMILY SOLIDARITY, INTIMACY, AND MARITAL COMMITMENT IN WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE
Soheila Pourakbari1 , Leila Moghtader * 2
1- Department of Psychology, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
2- Assistant professor, Department of Psychology Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran. (Corresponding Author) , moghtaderleila@yahoo.com
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Background & Aims: Maintaining and sustaining an effective marital relationship is the goal of many educational programs and therapeutic interventions in couples. By increasing the awareness of couples, many effective factors in their relationship, including intimacy and solidarity in families can be increased. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of marital enrichment on family solidarity, intimacy, and marital commitment in women of reproductive age. Materials & Methods: The research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population consisted of all women of reproductive age referred to Fouman's health centers in 2018. The study sample consisted of 30 participants (15 experimental and 15 control). The control group completed the Elson (1985) correlation questionnaire completed the relationship between Walker and Thompson (1983) and Adams and Jones (1997) marital commitment. Then, the experimental group received 8 sessions of marital relationship enrichment training and after performing a post-test for both experimental and control groups, the data were analyzed using analysis of covariance. Results: The findings indicated that marital enrichment training was effective on family correlation, intimacy, and marital commitment and its subscales in reproductive ages (p
Keywords: Enrichment, solidarity, Intimacy, commitment
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