The Effectiveness of Eight Weeks of Exercise Training in Water on Marital Conflicts and Emotional Self-Regulation of Inactive Veterans of Ilam City

Nowadays, it is clear to everyone the positive effects of sports activities as a non-pharmacological method. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of eight weeks of exercise training in water on marital conflicts and emotional self-regulation of inactive veterans in Ilam city. The method of this research is a quasi-experimental type of pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the research is all the veterans of Ilam city, of which 28 people were selected as a sample using available and voluntary sampling in two experimental (14 people) and control (14 people) groups. Sports exercises in water were held with the experimental group for 8 weeks, 3 sessions per week and 70 minutes each session. During this period, the control group did not participate in any specific exercise program. Two library and field methods were used to collect data; in this way, in order to collect the background and theoretical foundations of the research, the library method was used, and to collect data, two standard questionnaires of marital conflicts by Sanaei Zaker and Barati (2008) and emotional self-regulation by Hoffman and Kashdan (2010) were used. Validity and reliability were also confirmed. In order to analyze the data, Univariate covariance and Multivariate covariance statistical tests were used with the help of SPSS version 24 software. The results of the research showed that there is a significant difference between the two experimental and control groups (at a 95% confidence level) after exercise training in water in the variable of emotional self-regulation, but no significant difference was observed in the variable of marital conflicts. Therefore, exercise training in water has a significant effect on the emotional self-regulation of the experimental group, but it does not have a significant effect on marital conflicts. Exercise training in water improves the emotional self-regulation of veterans; therefore, Martyr Foundation and Veterans Affairs of Ilam can use this method of intervention in order to improve the emotional self-regulation of veterans.