Designing an Instructional Package for Coping with Domestic Violence and the Effectiveness of the Package Instruction on Spousal Violence and Children’s Academic Enthusiasm

The conflicts between tradition and specifically ethnic traditions and modernization enhance some obstacles derived from domestic violence and its consequence is directed towards wives and children. Regarding this matter, the purpose of the research was to design an instructional package for coping with spousal domestic violence and to investigate its effectiveness of instruction on spousal violence and children’s academic enthusiam.

The research method is semi-experimental of the pre-test and post-test kind with two experimental groups plus two control groups. Among the 53 women who experienced violence and referred to one of the counselling centers in the city of Rafsanjan, using convenience sampling method, 30 of them were selected. Using the simple random sampling method, they were placed into two experimental and control groups, with 15 subjects in each group; as the pre-test and the post-test, they completed the domestic violence against women questionnaire and their children completed the academic engagement questionnaire. For the intervention, for 10 sessions, only the experimental women group was exposed to the researcher made instructional package of coping with spousal violence. The data were analyzed using the Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA).

Findings show that the instruction of coping with domestic violence has a significant effect on males’ violence and on enhancing children’s academic enthusiam.

It is concluded that the instructional package has the capability of being used as an instructional protocole and it can be beneficial as a tool in order to reduce males’ domestic violence and promoting children’s academic enthusiam.