The Effectiveness of Group Cognitive- Behavioral Therapy on Increasing the Marital Satisfaction of Women Having Marital Conflict (on the basis of Islamic measures)

In Islam, whatever strengthens family ties is considered acceptable and whatever weakens family links is deemed unfavorable. According to Qur’anic teachings, the efforts should be directed to bringing about reconciliation between spouses, because unsound beliefs about marital relations result in intensity and recurrence of marital conflict. Hence, this paper investigates the effectiveness of group cognitive- behavioral therapy on increasing marital satisfaction among the women who have marital conflict. To this end, thirty female volunteers having marital conflict were selected and divided into two groups through a semi- experimental research and the available type of sampling. The testees in the two groups filled out questionnaires about marital conflict and matrimonial satisfaction (on the basis of Islamic measures) before and after the treatment. One -way and multi- way co- variance analysis was used for analyzing the data. The findings show that group cognitive- behavioral therapy contributes to the decrease of marital conflicts and increase of marital satisfaction while its components reaching the standard of (p<0/05).Therefore, alongside religious teachings, and use of special techniques, group cognitive-behavioral therapy corrects cognition, regulates behavioral malfunctions and negative excitement, and contributes to the revaluation of soundness of thoughts and realizing the breakdown in communication and thus promoting the ways of setting the goal.