Effectiveness of Educating Marital Skills Based on Gottman’s Approach on of Woman’s communication patterns.

The purpose of this study was investigating the effectiveness of training marital skills based on Gottman model on women's communication patterns. The present study is a quasi-experimental one with pre-test and post-test with control group. The sample of this study consisted of 15 eligible women from Shahriyar city in 1397 who were selected by voluntary method and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. In the pre-test phase, the two groups were assessed by Christensen & Sullaway (1984) communication patterns questionnaire. Then communication skills based on Gottman model were performed for 10 sessions, 90 minutes for the experimental group, but the control group did not receive any intervention. After the end of the training sessions, post-test was taken from both groups. The methods of Descriptive statistics and covariance analysis were used for analyzing data. Data analysis showed that there was a significant difference between women of two experimental and control groups regarding the style of communication patterns, and the training of marital skills based on Gottman’s model improved the communication patterns and their components in women of experimental group. Training of martial skills based on Gottman model improves women's communication patterns. This educational method can be used to improve communication skills between couples.