Effectiveness of counseling model based on Asma-hosna in marital quality of married women

Abstract

The current study aims to examine the effect of counseling model based on Asma-hosna on marital quality of married women. The research was quasi-experimental using control group, pre- and post- test designs. The population study includes all of women aged 25 to 48 years old whose daughters were studying at high school in Tehran during the academic year of 2017, and statistical sample consisted of 30 women selected by purposive sampling and randomly assigned into two controls and experimental groups. Then, the experimental group participated in 10 educational sessions for counseling model based on Asma-hosna. The content of the training sessions is based on the available resources related to the Asma-hosna and famous Hadith of the Prophet, in which 99 names are considered divine. Both groups completed Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS; Busby et al., 1995) in pre- and post-tests. In the end, the results between 2 groups were compared through multi-covariate analysis. The results showed a significant increase in the mean of the marital quality scale and its subscales including the agreement, satisfaction and coherence in post-test in the experimental group (p<0.005). The findings of this research confirmed the effectiveness of counseling model based on Asma-hosna on marital quality of women, and it could be applied by professionals for developing couple therapy interventions.

Keywords

• religious counseling
• counseling model based on asma-hosna
• marital quality