Masoud Akhgar; Maryam Fatehizade
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The present research aimed to determine the effectiveness of emotional intelligence education on marriage expectation improvement and emotional regulation skill enhancement of youth on the verge of marriage. The research method was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with a control group. The statistical ...
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The present research aimed to determine the effectiveness of emotional intelligence education on marriage expectation improvement and emotional regulation skill enhancement of youth on the verge of marriage. The research method was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with a control group. The statistical population of this research was all the male students in the marriage threshold at Isfahan Shahid Bahonar Farhangian University. Among the volunteer participants in the education emotional intelligence program,30 students were selected through the voluntarily sampling method. They are into two groups (experimental and control groups). the experimental group participated in 9 sessions of emotional intelligence education. There was no intervention in to control group. The research tools were ERSQ and MES. The results showed that the idealistic expectation, realistic expectation, and emotional regulation skills were increased in the experimental group significantly in comparison with the control group. Also, the pessimistic expectation was decreased in the experimental group significantly in comparison with the control group. moreover, the results indicated that emotional intelligence education affects adjusting realistic and pessimistic expectations and improving emotional regulation skills of the male youth marriage threshold. Therefore, this package can be effects used in pre-marital education.
Bahar Hajrezaei; Shokouh Navabinejad; Alireza Kiamanesh
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Increasing the age of marriage may cause major damages to unmarried young people, especially girls, their families and the society . Economic, social, and cultural factors have changed the marriage pattern in societies. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of an integrated ...
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Increasing the age of marriage may cause major damages to unmarried young people, especially girls, their families and the society . Economic, social, and cultural factors have changed the marriage pattern in societies. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of an integrated approach of Acceptance Commitment Therapy(ACT) and Olson's preparation approach in enhancing marriage expectations and responsibility in unmarried girls. This study was experimental with pretest-posttest and control group. 40 unmarried girls in Tehran participated in the research and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group received eight 120- minute sessions of training based on an integrated approach of (ACT) and Olson's. Marriage expectation was measured by the Marriage Expectation Scale (MES) and responsibility by the California Psychological Inventory (CPI).Results showed that the integrated approach was effective in reducing pessimistic and idealistic marriage expectations . They also revealed that the integrated approach had been effective in increasing the realistic expectations of marriage and the responsibility of the girls. It is suggested that this approach be used by marriage counselors and family therapists as an interventional procedure.
