Effectiveness of family- based Islamic – Iranian oriented psychological program on reduction of aggression and increasing of adjustment among couples

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of family- based Islamic – Iranian oriented psychological program on the reduction of aggression and increasing of adjustment among couples. This study was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with the control group. The study population consisted of all parent of students of the first course of high-school from Babol in the academic year of 2018- 2019. The sample consisted of 20 (10 couple) parent that were selected by as an available and randomly recruits to each of groups. Then, the participants in the experimental group participated in 10 sessions of 90 min of family- based Islamic – Iranian oriented psychological program, while the control group did not receive any therapy. Instruments for gathering data were Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992) and Spanir Adjustment Scale (1976). Then, the data were analyzed using SPSS.v21 software and statistical tests such as MANCOVA. The results indicate that family- based Islamic – Iranian oriented psychological program had a significant impact on the aggression and marital adjustment of couples. Based on the findings of this study, family- based Islamic – Iranian oriented psychological program can decrease aggression and increase marital adjustment among couples and thus could be used as an effective interventional method.