Journal of Counseling Research

Seyyedeh Faeze Sajjadi - Rasool Rowshan The purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of communication skills on improving the perspective on love and marital disenchantment. The current research was semi-experiential and involved pretest and posttest with control group. The target population included all female marriage students at Mashad Medical University who were present at campus dormitory at the beginning of summer 2014. Forty individuals were selected through purposeful sampling. Selected individuals participated in ten 90-minute (twice weekly) supervised training. Research tools included Paynz Marital Disenchantment and Hendrik and Hendrik attitutes towards love. Data from single-variable and multi-variable covariance analysis were analyzed. Results showed a meaningful difference between the behavior of the two groups (p<0.0001). Additionally, communication skills seemed to improve perspective towards love and marital disenchantment.

This research was  aimed finding the predictive role of irrational communicative beliefs and love components with marital disenchantment among women referring to counseling centers in Shiraz, Iran. Statistical population of this study consisted of all women who referred to these centers due to marital disenchantment and the sample comprised 203 women, who were selected by random sampling method. The instruments used in this research are Relational Beliefs Questionnaire, Love Components Questionnaire and Marital Disenchantment Questionnaire. Results of multiple regressions as synchronous method showed that relationship beliefs predict marital disenchantment positively as well as love components predict marital disenchantment of women negatively. Pearson correlation test showed that there is relationship between the field variables (age, marriage duration, education and number of children) and marital disenchantment as well as field variables and relational beliefs as the age of participants does not affect on the beliefs. Also, the results of Pearson correlation coefficients showed that there is relationship between field variables and love components in women as the education level does not affect on their love components. And the regression test results as synchronous method showed the anticipated components of love (especially, Intimacy) of the relational beliefs.