The Effectiveness of Positive Couple Therapy on Marital Adjustment and Marital Fusion in Couples with Marital Conflicts

Abstract

Purpose: The present research was conducted with the aim of determine the effectiveness of positive couple therapy on marital adjustment and marital fusion in couples with marital conflicts.Methodology: The present research was a quasi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with experimental and control groups. The statistical population of this study was all couples with marital conflicts who referred to counseling centers of Ahvaz city in the autumn season of 2023 year. The samples of this research was 32 people (16 couples) who were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly assigned into two equal groups including experimental and control groups. The experimental group was trained for 10 sessions of 60 minute with positive couple therapy method, and during this time the control group did not receive any training. The data of the present research were collected with a marital adjustment scale (Spanier, 1976) and marital fusion questionnaire (Singer & Skerrett, 2014) and analyzed with tests of chi-square and multivariate analysis of covariance in SPSS-26 software.Findings: The findings of this research showed that couples with marital conflicts in the experimental and control groups did not significantly different in terms of age, occupation, and education level (P>0.05). Also, positive couple therapy significantly increased marital adjustment and marital fusion in couples with marital conflicts (P<0.001).Conclusion: According to the results of this study, planning to use positive couple therapy intervention to increase marital adjustment and marital fusion in couples with marital conflicts is necessary.