reza khojastehmehr; sara shirmardi; kiumars beshlideh
Abstract
Virtues, defined as strengths or personality traits, enable a good or valuable life.Applying the concept of marital virtues to the context of the marital relationship is a result of recent positive psychology works. One of the tools for measuring marital virtues is the Marital Virtues Profile (MVP). ...
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Virtues, defined as strengths or personality traits, enable a good or valuable life.Applying the concept of marital virtues to the context of the marital relationship is a result of recent positive psychology works. One of the tools for measuring marital virtues is the Marital Virtues Profile (MVP). Research has shown that marital virtues affect marital quality, stability, and adjustment. The MVP includes items that measure the individual and other-centeredness levels of marital virtues in a marital relationship. The present study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the martial virtues profile in married people in Izeh. To achieve this goal, 228 married individuals (118 females and 110 males) responded to the profile of martial virtues. The findings confirmed the five-factor structure of the marital virtues profile (admiration, understanding, sacrifice, justice, and forgiveness) in the Iranian sample as well. Findings also showed that this measure has good reliability and validity. The internal consistency of MVP was 0.89 using Cronbach's alpha and the correlation between MVP with the Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS) was 0/49. Therefore, the implication of this measure is recommended for family and marriage researchers, family and couples therapists and educators of marriage education programs.
Mehdi Rostami; Mehdi Ghezelseflo
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Engagement period and the first years of marriage are important stages in the family life cycle. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of pre- marriage training in the SYMBIS method on communication beliefs of the engaged couples. Participant were 20 couples referring to Shahid ...
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Engagement period and the first years of marriage are important stages in the family life cycle. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of pre- marriage training in the SYMBIS method on communication beliefs of the engaged couples. Participant were 20 couples referring to Shahid Beheshti University counseling center, selected from all who referred from September to December 2017. They were randomly assigned to experimental (10 pairs) and control (10 pairs) groups. The experimental group received 8 sessions of 90 minutes weekly intervention. Both groups completed the Communication Beliefs Inventory in three stages of pre-test, post-test and follow-up. Findings showed a significant difference between the performance of both experimental and control groups in the total score of communication beliefs (F = 63/23, p = 0/001), disagreement in destructive factors (F = 34/40, p = 0/001), partner,s in ability to change (F = 27/73, p = 0/001), expectation and mind reading (F = 46/31, p = 0/001), sexual perfectionism (F = 23/10, p = 0/001) and sexual dissonance (F = 29/58, p = 0/001) in post-test and follow up stages. Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that premarital enrichment through SYMBIS method is effective in reducing the ineffective communication beliefs among engaged couples.
Reza Khojasteh Mehr; Narges Esmaeili Babadi; Zabihollah Abbaspour
Volume 4, Issue 2 , March 2018, , Pages 61-74
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Relational ethics deals with fairness and unfairness in intimate relationships. It also deals with trustworthiness, justice, loyalty, merit, and entitlement between members of a relationship. Relational ethics requires members of the relationship to assume responsibility for consequences in the process ...
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Relational ethics deals with fairness and unfairness in intimate relationships. It also deals with trustworthiness, justice, loyalty, merit, and entitlement between members of a relationship. Relational ethics requires members of the relationship to assume responsibility for consequences in the process of give and take. The Relational Ethics Scale (RES) consists of two types of components: vertical and horizontal. The vertical dimension of the scale measures relational ethics in family of origin and the horizontal dimension measures current relationships between spouses. The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Relational Ethics in married men and women in Ahvaz. 208 married participants (89 males, 119 females) were asked to complete the Relational Ethics Scale (RES), the Relational Assessment Scale (RAS) and the Measure of Perceived Equity (MPE). Results confirmed the six-factor structure of the RES. They also showed that the RES has a suitable concurrent validity and reliability in measuring the couples’ relational ethics. Findings showed that this scale can be appropriately used in research studies as well as in premarital consultation and couple therapy by psychologists and family counselors.
Reza Khojasteh Mehr; Zeinab Daniali; Khadijeh Shirali Nia
Volume 2, Issue 2 , November 2015, , Pages 39-50
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: Readiness for marriage is regarded as a subjective evaluation of one's own readiness to take on the responsibilities and challenges of marriage and a predictor of marital satisfaction. So the aim of the present research was studying the lived experiences of marriage readiness among married students. ...
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: Readiness for marriage is regarded as a subjective evaluation of one's own readiness to take on the responsibilities and challenges of marriage and a predictor of marital satisfaction. So the aim of the present research was studying the lived experiences of marriage readiness among married students. The study was conducted in a qualitative method using a phenomenological approach. Thus 16 married students who had felt marriage readiness at the time of their marriage, were selected in a purposive sampling which were studied via in-depth and exploratory interviews. Then data were collected, registered, encoded and classified into 5 main categories. By analyzing the participants' experiences, 551 primary codes, 17 subthemes, and five main themes, including interpersonal readiness, intrapersonal readiness, contextual readiness, meeting the needs, and social support were identified. The results showed that different factors such as gaining moral, emotional and mental readiness to marriage, gaining emotional and financial independence from family of origin, getting ready to sacrifice, forgiveness and commitment to spouse , accepting the responsibilities and challenges of marital life, acquiring necessary interpersonal skills, considering some criteria for choosing spouse, making acquaintance with the spouse, getting some experiences from marital life of others and student life, age readiness, and others' supports have an important role in preparing people for marriage. So all important factors should be noticed in marriage preparation programs which target adolescents and the youth.
