مطالعات اسلام و روانشناسی (Sep 2022)

Designing an Educational Package of Islamic Happiness and Its Feasibility in the Dimensions of Psychological Resilience of Couples with Marital Conflicts

  • azam Zare Mirak abad,
  • reza ghorban jahromi,
  • Molouk khademi Ashkzari,
  • Kamran Sheivandi cholicheh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.30471/psy.2022.8478.1988
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 31
pp. 155 – 177

Abstract

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In religious society of Iran, the use of Iranian-Islamic psychological interventions for couples with marital conflicts has been ignored; thus, the present research was conducted with the aim of designing an educational package of Islamic happiness and its feasibility in the dimensions of psychological resilience of couples with marital conflicts. In the qualitative phase, the theme analysis by inductive method, and in the quantitative phase, a quasi-experimental method with a pretest-posttest design and with a control group and a two-month follow-up phase was applied. The population included couples with marital conflicts referring to the counseling centers in the east of Tehran during the first six months of 2020. In this research, 26 couples were purposefully selected and randomly placed in the test group (28 people) and in the control group (24 people). The test group received eight sessions of an educational package of Islamic happiness for two months. The questionnaires of marital conflict (Barati and Sanaei, 1996) and psychological resilience (Conner and Davidson, 2003) were applied. The data were analyzed with mixed ANOVA. The results showed that, according to the experts' view, the educational package of Islamic happiness has an appropriate content and execution validity. In addition, the education of Islamic happiness influences the dimensions of psychological resilience of couples with marital conflicts (P<0.0001), while this intervention does not have any significant influence on just the subscale of spiritual effects. Based on the findings of this research, the education of Islamic happiness can be used as an efficient method to improve the resilience of couples by taking advantage of creating a safe, supportive, and empathetic relationship, educating the concept of forgiveness, paying attention to the positive consequences of patience, and identifying the inherent abilities and talents of couples in reaching happiness.

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