The Effectiveness of Teaching Acceptance and Commitment with an Islamic Approach on Marital Satisfaction, Marital Boredom and Quality of Life in Married Women with Emotional Divorce

Married women who experience emotional divorcehave psychological problems that require therapeuticinterventions. The purpose of this research was theeffectiveness of teaching acceptance and commitment with anIslamic approach on marital satisfaction, marital boredom andquality of life in married women with emotional divorce.

The research method was semiexperimental and pre-test, post-test with a control group. Thestatistical population of this research included all marriedwomen with emotional divorce who referred to counselingcenters in Tehran in 1401, and 30 people (15 people from theexperimental group and 15 people from the control group)were selected as a sample using available sampling method.The tools of data collection were Elson's Marital SatisfactionQuestionnaire (1998), Pines Marital Discontent (1996) andVar et al.'s Quality of Life (1996). The intervention of teachingacceptance and commitment with an Islamic approach wasimplemented during 8 sessions of 90 minutes once a week inthe experimental group and the control group did not receiveany training. Data analysis was done with descriptive tests(mean and standard deviation) and covariance analysis usingSPSS version 24 software. P value less than 0.05 wasconsidered significant.

In the experimental group, the mean and standarddeviation of marital satisfaction increased from 52.40±9.23 to61.07±9.82 after the intervention. The mean and standarddeviation of marital boredom decreased from 65.64±8.15 to54.17±8.24 after the intervention. Also, the mean and standarddeviation of the quality of life score increased from59.47±8.36 to 68.46±9.67 after the intervention (p<0.01).

The results showed that teaching acceptance andcommitment with an Islamic approach has reduced maritaldissatisfaction and increased marital satisfaction and quality oflife. Therefore, the use of acceptance and commitment withthe Islamic approach is recommended by counselors andtherapists to reduce the psychological problems of womenwith emotional divorce.