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Introduction: Marital conflict is one of the common problems in couple relationship that has been the interest of counselors and family therapists since its devastating effects. This study has been done to examine the role of defensive style and emotional schemas in marital conflicts
Methods: This study was a correlational one. The population consisted of parents of children kept in kindergarten in the city of Ardabil in the years of 92-93. A total of 240 parents [120 couples] were selected in a random sampling and answered the questionnaires about marital conflict [Sanaei and Barati, 1375], defensive styles [Andrews, shinee, and Bowen, 1993] and emotional schemas [Leahy, 2002]. Data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and step to step regression
Results: The results showed that the relationship of the marital conflict variables and mature and immature defensive styles and emotional schemas are statistically significant. There was just, neurotic defensive style variables of other variables which was not statistically significant. Also, the results showed that immature defensive style has greatest role in increasing marital conflict
Conclusion: According to our findings, there is a relation between defensive style and emotional schema with marital conflict and they predict it significantly. Therefore, it is necessary to examine insufficient defensive style and emotional schema to reduce marital conflict; thus, strategies are recommended to improve it
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Introduction: Couple burnout is one of the problems that is a main reason for emotional divorce because of its adverse and destructive effects on marital system and creating psycho-emotional distance in a couple, and this problem, if untreated, will prepare the grounds for formal divorce. The solution-focused brief therapy is a postmodern approach in couple therapy and family therapy which focuses on finding solutions by the client in cooperation with the therapist. In this study we investigated the effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy in couple burnout and divorce tendency among married women
Methods: This research is a quasi-experimental study and pretest-posttest with control group design is used. The population consists of all married women with marital conflicts and problems who have visited Golha House of health, located in the 6[th] district of Tehran city in the second half of 2013. In this study, the sampling method was available sampling. Thus, 30 women who were qualified to participate in meetings and had earned the highest scores in the survey questionnaire were selected, and they were placed in experimental and control groups through random assignment [each n=15]. The data gathering tools in this study were pains couple burnout measure [CBM] and the Divorce Tendency Scale of Roswelt, Jonson and, Moro [DTS] 1986, which were completed by the subjects in the pretest. The intervention group was exposed to solution-focused brief therapy for seven two-hour sessions in groups, in a step-by-step manner with the sequence of one session per week. But no intervention was performed in the control group. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics methods and through multivariate analysis of covariance [MANCOVA] in software SPSS20
Results: The results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed a significant reduction in couple burnout and divorce tendency [P= 0.000] of married women after performing solution-focused brief therapy. The mean and standard devietion of couple burnout and divorce tendency of interference group in pretest respectively was 113/6 +/- 20/04 and 126/53 +/- 31/12 and in post test stage was 94/6 +/- 21/69 and 102/26 +/- 22/15. In control group also mean and standard devietion of couple burnout and divorce tendency before interference respectively was108/53 +/- 16/68 and 106/46 +/- 27/21 and after interference was 106/93 +/- 28/16
Conclusion: According to the findings of this research, it can be concluded that solution-focused brief therapy has been able to be effective in reducing couple burnout and divorce tendency among married women. Counselors and family therapists can use this short-term, efficient and effective therapy approach to solve marital conflicts and help people to improve their marital relationships