A comparative Study of the Effectiveness of Pre-Marriage Education by the Method of Awareness Program on Dysfunctional Marital Beliefs in People Applying for Marriage

The current research was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of pre-marriage trainings using the method of interpersonal awareness and choice program and the multi-dimensional local-oriented approach on couples' dysfunctional beliefs in people applying for marriage. The method of the present research is a semi-experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the present study included all the people who applied for marriage in Arak city, and among them, 60 people were randomly selected in three experimental groups of the awareness and selection program. Interpersonal, indigenous education group and control group were included. In this study, the content of the pre-marriage training sessions based on the principles and techniques of the interpersonal awareness and choice program (PICK) in two 90-minute sessions per week and multi-dimensional indigenous education in ten 40-minute sessions Done. The data collection tool was communication beliefs inventory and analysis of covariance was used to analyze the data. Based on the results, there was a significant difference between the effectiveness of pre-marriage education by the method of interpersonal awareness and selection program and the multidimensional local-oriented approach on communication beliefs in two beliefs related to the belief of expectation of mind reading and the belief that the spouse will not change. Another result is that in the program of pre-marriage education by the method of awareness and interpersonal choices program, people learned that communication and compatibility with the future spouse is much more complicated than matching or having no dissimilarity with him and it is necessary to behave with including self-sacrifice in improving relationships and increasing satisfaction, play their role.