Comparison of the Effectiveness of Two Training Methods of Resiliency and Communicative Skills on Student's Marital Adjustment

The purpose of this research is to study the comparison of the effectiveness of two training methods of resiliency and communicative skills on student’s marital adjustment.
The method of the present survey is experimental with pretest-posttest control group. The statistical society of current research consisted of all student's couples who lived in Saveh province (Markazi) in 2014 that they remained in their marriage lives between 1 to 7 years. The sample was consisted of 72 participants who had low adjustment that were selected according to public announcement and they were randomly assigned in three groups: two experimental groups and one control group. The instrument used in this study for data analysis included spinner adjustment ancova and mancova questionnaire.
The results of the covariance analysis indicated that marital adjustment is increased in two experimental groups, compared to the control group. Comparing the two methods show that the method of communicative skills training resiliency is more effective in increasing marital adjustment.
Both resiliency and communicative skills training are able to increase marital adjustment. It is suggested that both methods for improving marital adjustment should be considered.