Effectiveness of Solution-oriented Teaching on Marital Conflicts and Life Quality in Couples in Isfahan

In the recent years, family-based subjects have attracted considerable attention from pertinent investigators. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of solution-oriented teaching on marital conflicts and life quality in couples in Isfahan.

The research design in this semi-experimental study was pre- and post-test with control group. The statistical population included all couples referring to the Family Interventions Center to Reduce Divorce of the Isfahan Welfare Organization in 2015. Twenty couples were then selected through convenient method and randomly into two groups of 10, experimental and control group. The data gathering instrument were Sanaie and Barati’s marital conflicts questionnaire (2011) and WHO’s marital life quality (1996). The experimental group received solution-oriented teaching for 7 weekly sessions of 90 min of and the control group received nothing. The data were then collected and analyzed through covariance analysis. 

The analysis of the pre- and post- test data in the experimental group revealed that the means of component of marital conflicts were (150 ± 6.08) and (107.8± 5.20) respectively and of life quality were (60.40 ± 5.06) and (77.75 ±3.68) respectively.  For control group, these values for marital conflicts were (149± 6.30) and (150 ± 5.93) respectively and for life quality were (62.10 + 5.48) and (61.95 ± 6.08) respectively. From the one hand the results showed that there is a significant in the components of marital conflicts and life quality after teaching intervention between the experimental and control groups (p<0.001). Significant differences were observed between the values of marital conflicts and life quality in the two groups (p<0.001).

According to the results of the present study, solution-oriented method can be proposed as an efficient method to relieve marital conflicts and as a result to promote life quality.