TY - JOUR JF - counseling_journal JO - QJCR VL - 13 IS - 50 PY - 2014 Y1 - 2014/7/01 TI - The Effectiveness of Forgiveness Therapy Program on Marital Conflicts and Life Quality TT - تأثیر بخشش درمانی بر تعارضات زناشویی و کیفیت زندگی زنان مراجعه‌کننده به بهزیستی شهر اراک N2 - The aim of this study was to determine the impact of forgiveness therapy program on marital conflicts and life quality of women referred to Arak Welfare Organization. For this purpose, among women whom gained the high scores (high then 25) in the marital conflict questionnaire (an available sample), a sample of 30 women was assigned randomly into two experimental and control groups. In order to test the research hypotheses, a semi-experimental pre-test and post-test design with the control group was used. The instruments of this study were SF36 life quality and ENRICH marital conflict questionnaires. Then the experimental group received ten 75-minute sessions of forgiveness therapy program, but the control group did not receive any treatment. The outcomes of T-test and MANOVA indicated that forgiveness therapy program was effectiveness on reducing marital conflicts and increasing women's life quality in general, and this effect was statistically meaningful at p&le.05. SP - 118 EP - 139 AD - KW - Keywords: forgiveness therapy program KW - marital conflicts KW - quality of life UR - http://irancounseling.ir/journal/article-1-97-en.html ER -