The effectiveness of movie therapy on marital adjustment and psychological well-being of couples referring to counseling clinics in Tehran

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of movie therapy on marital adjustment and psychological well-being of couples. The statistical population of this study was couples referring to three of the counseling centers located in Tehran in 2018. Forty subjects (20 couples) were selected through convenient sampling and randomly divided into control and experimental groups each with 20 subjects i.e. 10 couples. Subjects completed the Marital Adjustment Questionnaire (1959) and Ryff’s Psychological Well-Being Questionnaire (1989), before and after intervention, and 4 months after the completion of the intervention. The experimental group was provided with 8 sessions of movie therapy, but the control group didn’t have any intervention. To analyze the data, repeated measure multivariate analysis of variance was used. The results showed that the effect of groups on psychological well-being and marital adjustment effect was significant (P = 0.11). The effect of time on dependent variables was also significant (P = 0.0001). Also, the effect of interaction between groups and the time of measurement of dependent variables was significant (P = 0.0001). Therefore, it can be stated that the mean of psychological well-being and marital adjustment at different times of measurement have a significant difference in the two groups.