The Effect of Marital Counseling on Marital Conflicts and Intimacy Couples with Different Personality Traits

Marital relationship is one of the most important areas of life of individuals whose various factors play a role in it. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of couple counseling on marital conflicts and marital intimacy couples with different personality traits referred to counseling centers in Yazd. This is a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest design with control group. In order to conduct research, all couples with different personality traits referring to counseling centers in Yazd were randomly selected into experimental and control groups. The experimental group was subjected to twin counseling based on solving the problem of personality differences for 12 sessions. Two pre-test and post-test questionnaires were used for Marital Conflicts Questionnaire (MCQ) and Marital Intimacy Questionnaire (MIC). Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance and using SPSS software. The results showed that marital counseling was effective on marital intimacy and conflicts on subjects. In order to reduce marital conflicts and increase marital intimacy in couples with different personality traits can use counseling based on solving the problem of personality differences and suggest it to marriage counselors and professionals.