Abstract

Objective: The present paper is aimed at studying the effect of transactional analysis group training on marital satisfaction of men and women referring to the counseling centers and cultural centers in Isfahan. Method: the present paper is a semi-empirical research in the form of pre-test and post-test with the control group. The research sample was selected randomly from among 114 applicants for participating in the group training and was categorized into two groups. The first group included 30 married men and 30 women (60 persons) as the test group and the second group included 30 married men and women (30 persons) as the control group. Both groups were pre-tested by ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Inventory (short form) (Elson et al., 1989). The test group underwent 10 sessions of transactional analysis group training. To examine raw data, SPSS-15 was used and the results were analyzed by using multi variable analysis of co-variance. Findings: the results revealed that after transactional analysis group training, there was a significant difference (p<0.01) between marital satisfaction of the married men and women in the test group and of those in the control group. Conclusions: many obstacles of a proper relation may be removed by training married men and women in analyzing verbal and non-verbal effective communication.

Keywords:

Marital satisfaction, married men and women, transactional analysis,

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