An Inquiry into the Effectiveness of the Course of Religion-Based Transactional Analysis (TA) on the Degree of Love, Affection, and Respect to the Spouse and on Marriage Satisfaction

The present paper aims at investigating the effectiveness of the course of religion-based transactional analysis on the degree of love, affection, and respect to the spouse and on marriage satisfaction. From among the spouses who have family and marital problems and who visited researcher's counseling center, thirty spouses were selected through available sampling and were divided into two groups: experimental and control. The experimental groups attended an eight-session course of learning transactional analysis but the control group did not take part in this course. A measurement scale of love and affection, a questionnaire about respect to spouse, and Enrich's questionnaire of marriage satisfaction were used in this research. The results show that there was a significant difference between the experimental group and control group in terms of degree of love, affection and respect to the spouse and concerning marriage satisfaction (R<0.001). That is, the degree of love, affection and respect to the spouse, as well as marriage satisfaction in the experimental group is significantly more than that before the test or that of the control group. These results are also significantly consistent in the follow up period (p<0.001).