The Effectiveness of Iranian-Islamic Positive Therapy on Tolerance of Distress and Life Satisfaction of Couples

Paying attention to the factors influencing the improvement of mental health and as a result increasing the life satisfaction of couples is very effective and valuable, so the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of Iranian-Islamic positive therapy on distress tolerance and life satisfaction of couples.

The present research method was semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test with control group. The research population included all the couples who referred to counseling centers and psychological services under the supervision of the welfare of the second district of Tehran in the first six months of 2022, and 30 people were selected by available sampling method and were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups (each group 15 people). The data collection tools included the distress tolerance questionnaires of Simmons and Gaher (2005) and life satisfaction questionnaires of Diener et al. (1985). For the experimental group, eight two-hour sessions and one Iranian-Islamic positive treatment training session per week were held, but the group did not receive a training certificate. Data analysis was done using univariate covariance in SPSS version 24 software.

The results showed that by controlling the effect of the pre-test, there was a significant difference between the average post-test scores of the experimental and control groups in the variables of distress tolerance and life satisfaction (p<0.01).

Iranian-Islamic positive therapy training is recommended to improve distress tolerance and life satisfaction of couples.