Journal of Counseling Research

Abstract

Background: marital quality of life as an index of marriage success is among the important factors related to marital stability. Quality is a dynamic and interactive process among couples which is influenced by each couple's appraisal of their relationships and it includes both individual and interpersonal factors. Current research aimed to investigate the role of irrational beliefs and emotion regulation skills in predicting the marital quality of life. Methods: in this cross-sectional, correlational study the population consisted of the married, female teachers in Sabzevar which were working as teachers in 2015. The sample included 303 of these female teachers which were selected using single stage random cluster sampling method. Instruments included Persian translations of the revised dyadic adjustment scale (RDAS) and the emotion regulation skills questionnaire (ERSQ), the Persian 4-factor irrational beliefs test-Ahvaz (4IBT-A) was also completed by the participants. Descriptive statistics, Pearson product moment correlation, and stepwise regression were used as data analysis methods. Results: irrational beliefs and emotion regulation skills significantly predicted the marital quality of life. Irrational beliefs variable with a beta coefficient of -.36 was the strongest predictor of marital quality of life. Conclusion: Irrational beliefs negatively and emotion regulation skills positively predict the marital quality of life.  

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.

Purpose: The purpose of  this research was to analyze the effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) on correcting irrational beliefs and reducing cognitive avoidance of people with obsessive compulsive disorder. Methods: This research was performed using the semi-experimental method by using pretest/ posttest and a control group. Among all  the people who referred to the counseling centers in city ofShahrekord in 2015, thirty two people were selected in the form of voluntary purposive sampling. and through an interview, before  randomly being assigned into two experimental and control groups. Obsessive compulsive questionnaire of  Yile -Brown (T-Bocs), Jones irrational belief test (IBT), and Sexton and Dugas cognitive avoidance questionnaire (CAQ) were used in the pretest and posttest for collecting information, and data were analyzed using the descriptive indicators and covariance analysis test. The intervention of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy in the experimental group was performed twice a week in 20 sixty minute sessions, but the control group did not receive any interventions. Results: The results of covariance analysis on the scores of pre-treatment, treatment, and followup whowed that after adjusting the pre-test scores between  the experiment and control groups for the variables of irrational beliefs (P<0.01) and cognitive avoidance (P<0.05), a meaningful difference was seen. Conclusion: Based on the results of this research, it is concluded that the intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy is a convenient method for correcting irrational beliefs and reducing cognitive avoidance of people with obsessive compulsive disorder.