The Effectiveness of Stress Management Training on Resiliency and Quality of Life in Women with Marital Conflict in Kermanshah

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of teaching stress management skills on resiliency and quality of life of women with marital conflict in the years of 1997-1999. In this study, a pretest-posttest design with control group was used. In the present study, 30 women with high marital conflicts were selected through purposeful sampling and were randomly assigned to two groups of experimental and control group (15) using the Kanner and Davidson resiliency questionnaire and the quality of life scale.. The experimental group consisted of 8 sessions of training twice weekly stress management skills for 45 minutes on the experimental group and the control group participants were placed on the waiting list. Analysis of the findings using independent covariance analysis showed that training stress management skills increased the resilience and quality of life of women. The most important results of this research are the effectiveness of training stress management skills in improving the resilience and quality of life of these women. Therefore, it can be concluded that training stress management skills has been effective in increasing the resilience and quality of life of women with marital conflict.