Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Bowen's Family-Centered Approach on Improving Communication Patterns and Marital Conflicts in Women with Emotional Divorce
Emotional divorce as a social harm is the first step in the divorce process and indicates the severity of marital conflicts stemming from numerous factors such as the malfunction of couples' communication patterns. so; The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of Bowen's family-centered approach on improving communication patterns and marital conflicts in women with emotional divorce.
A quasi-experimental study was a pretest-posttest with a control group. The statistical population was all women with marital conflict who referred to the Central Welfare Organization of Isfahan in the first quarter of 2020. After screening, 30 subjects with emotional divorce were selected by simple random sampling and assigned to experimental and control groups. The research tool was the scale of communication patterns and marital conflicts. The subjects in the experimental groups participated in the Bowen family therapy training program, but the control group did not receive any training. Finally, the data were analyzed using SPSS software at two levels of descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (analysis of covariance and analysis of variance of repeated measures multivariate).
The results showed that Bowen's therapeutic approach led to a significant difference in the mean post-test scores of the experimental group in both variables of marital conflict and communication patterns.
Bowen's therapeutic approach can be useful in reducing the rate of marital conflict and improving the communication pattern of women with emotional divorce, and consequently, reduce emotional divorce and increase marital adjustment.
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