seyed rahman hosseini

Marital intimacy refers to the interaction between couples that leads to feelings of closeness, love and attention, and research has shown that it is a importanat factor in creating marital satisfaction. Despite the publication of the results of gottman’s longitudinal research, that proved the effectiveness in marital variables, there is a research gap in the study population as well as a comparison of this treatment with the acceptance and commitment therapy.

The purpose of this research was to comparing of comparing the effectiveness of Gottman’s couple therapy and acceptance and commitment couple therapy (ACT) on marital intimacy in distressed couples.

Based on the pilot plan that is “pretest-posttest with followup” selected 19 couples that referred to counseling centers in Sardasht, using the Thompson & Walker marital intimacy inventory (1983) and after the initial screening and applying the entry and exit criteria, they were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group. First group participated in ACT sessions (take from Bach & Moran, 2008) and the second, participated in Guttman couple therapy sessions (based on gottman & gottman, 2017), but the control group did not receive training during this period. The data analyzed by mixed analysis of variance.

The results showed that there is a significant different between means both Gottman’s couple therapy and Act couple therapy with the control group in the variables of emotional closeness, marital satisfaction and total marital intimacy (p<0/05). but in the self-sacrifice, no significant difference was (p >0.05).

Both approaches increase marital intimacy in couples, however, it seems that Guttman couple therapy is more effective than ACT couple therapy. It seems that boath therapies ca nbe used to enrich the relationships of conflicting couples

The aim of this study is the improvement of high temperature wear behavior of gamma-based titanium aluminide (Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb at.%) by duplex process of “plasma nitriding” and “physical vapor deposition”. Plasma nitriding processes were carried out at temperature of 800°C, duration of 9 hours and gas ratio of N2/H2:1 by amplified cathode method. Four alternative layers of TiN and Ti33Al67N were applied by PVD at temperature of 300 ˚C and duration of 2.5 hours. Characterization tests were conducted with the aid of scanning electron microscopes and X-ray diffractometer. The evaluations of surface properties were carried out by micro-hardness and scratch testers. Wear behavior was evaluated using pin on disk method at 25, 300 and 600°C. Combination of Ti2AlN, TiN and (TiAl)N after duplex treatment were confirmed by XRD results. The surface hardness of 2400 HV0.025 and critical adhesion loads of 24.1 ,60.1 and 77.6 N were reached for the first cohesive failure level (LC1), the first adhesive failure level (LC2) and the first interfacial spalling (LC3) by duplex treatment. The wear rate at temperatures of 25, 300 and 600 ˚C decreased in order of 20, 55 and 100 in comparison with substrate. The abrasion, delamination and oxidation were detected as the main active wear mechanism in this tribological system.

The purpose of the current study to examine the effect of group based reality therapy was on choice theory on increasing of social adjustment and self- regulation in adolescents. Samples were 24 students 14-18 old, that obtained low scores in California Personality Inventory(CPI) and Self- Regulation Questionnaire(SRQ), and selected and devise to experimental and control groups by random sampling procedure. The experimental group participated in 8 sessions group reality therapy and each session lasted about 90 minutes, but the control group did not participate in there sessions. The data analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance method, and showed that there were a significant difference between means in experimental and control groups. The results of this research showed that reality therapy group as an education and treatment can be effective in increasing social adjustment and self- regulation.