Comparing the effectiveness of structural couple therapy and mindfulness-based couple therapy on life expectancy and psychological well-being in couples with marital dissatisfaction

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1 PhD student in Counseling, Department of Educational Sciences, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Educational Science , Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran.

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of structural couple therapy and mindfulness-based couple therapy on life expectancy and psychological well-being in couples with marital dissatisfaction. The design of the research was semi-experimental and pre-test, post-test and two-month follow-up with a control group. The research population included all couples with marital dissatisfaction referring to family counseling centers in Mashhad city who referred to these centers in the first 6 months of 2021 than from which 30 couples with marital dissatisfaction were selected as available and Randomly, they were placed in three groups: structural couple therapy, mindfulness-based couple therapy, and the control group. The research tools were life expectancy questionnaire (Snyder et al, 1991) and psychological well-being questionnaire (Ryff, 1989). In order to analyze the data, the analysis of variance test with repeated measurements was used. The findings indicated that there is a significant difference between the scores of life expectancy and psychological well-being between the two experimental groups and the control group (p>0.05). Also, the results showed that there is a significant difference between the two experimental groups of structural couple therapy and mindfulness couple therapy in terms of the degree of influence on the components of life expectancy and psychological well-being; Thus, the effect of mindfulness-based couple therapy on the life expectancy and psychological well-being of couples was greater than that of structural couple therapy (p>0.05). It is necessary to implement mindfulness-based couple therapy for couples at every level by spending more time and follow-up.

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  • Receive Date: 03 August 2023
  • Revise Date: 30 January 2024
  • Accept Date: 05 March 2024

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