Abstract

The present study examines the impact of transactional analysis training on marital satisfaction of women’s referred to counseling centers and cultural centers in Isfahan. The current research is a type of quasi- experimental study with pre-test and post-test and with control group. The population consisted of 114 applicants participated in the training group were randomly selected and divided into two groups (30 women each). For both groups the ENRICH marital satisfaction test (short version) was used for the pre-test. The experimental group underwent 10 sessions of transactional analysis group training. In order to examine the data SPSS15 was applied and the results were analyzed through multivariate covariance analysis test. the results showed that there is a difference in rate of marital satisfaction after the transactional analysis group training between the experimental and the control groups (p<0.01). Through training of women to get them familiarize with communicative and effective verbal and non-verbal interaction analysis many barriers to facilitation of a good relationship could be achieved.

Keywords:

Marital satisfaction, married women, transactional analysis,

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