Effectiveness of work life quality improvement training and enrichment of marital life trainings on the quality of work life and job satisfaction in of dual- career couples

Women have also entered the employment arena by changing the human societies, and now there are many families in which both couples work. The couples employment affects the quality of life, as well as job satisfaction. The purpose of the research was conducted to investigate the effect of work life quality improvement and enrichment of marital life trainings on the quality of work life and job satisfaction in dual- career couples in a quasi-experimental research with pretest, posttest, and follow- up with control group. 40 dual- career couples were selected using multistage cluster random sampling method, and were assigned randomly to experimental group (20 couples) and a control group (20 couples). The experimental group received thirteen-90-minutes sessions of work life quality improvement and enrichment of marital life trainings, and were assessed in three stages pre-test, post-test, and follow-up (2 months) in life work quality and job satisfaction variables. Data were measured. Data were analyzed using repeated-measures analysis of variance. The results showed that there is a significant difference between the experimental group and control group in quality of work life and job satisfaction. However, the work life quality improvement training and enrichment of marital life training increase the quality of work life and job satisfaction in Dual- Career couples