The Effectiveness of group counseling based on Satir communication approach on quality of life, marital confliction and satisfaction in women in the exchanging marriage, flee marriage and normality marriage

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1 Associate Professor, Counseling Department, Kurdistan University, Sanandaj. Iran

2 Master of Psychology Consultation, Sanandaj. Iran

Abstract

This research aims to determine the Effect of group counseling based on Satir communication approach on quality of life, marital confliction, and satisfaction in women in the exchanging marriage, flee marriage and normality marriage. This semi-experimental research contains a pretest, posttest with ever three groups. The statistical population were woman in the exchanging marriage, flee marriage and normality marriage. The sample contains 15 women in each group. The data gathered by sf36 and enrich scale and Marital Conflict Questionnaire Revised (MCQ-R) questionnaire. Women in the each group were under 10 sessions by group counseling based on Satir communication approach. The research questionnaires data were analyze by using the covariance analysis method provided by SPSS 19 software for statistical analysis. In this research, The effect of group counseling on Satir communication approach on quality of life was not statistically meaningful, but The effect of this therapy on marital satisfaction and marital confliction was statistically meaningful.

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  • Receive Date: 08 October 2015
  • Accept Date: 08 October 2015

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