The Effectiveness of the Educational Package for Promoting Couples' Emotional Relationships Based on the Verse of Friendship and Mercy on Improving Marital Satisfaction

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the educational package to promote couples' emotional relationships based on the verse of friendship and mercy on improving marital satisfaction. The research design was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test methods and control group. The statistical population consisted of couples referring to the counseling center of Hamadan city who were selected according to the entry and exit criteria of 14 couples in the range of 21 to 44 and the marriage record, with at least a two-time marriage and a maximum of 16 years were selected and placed in the experimental and control groups. The research instrument was a serious marital satisfaction questionnaire and a researcher-made educational package. The training sessions were held 7 times and once a week. Post-test was taken from both groups after the training sessions. After analyzing the data, the results showed that the training package to promote the couple's emotional relationship based on the verse of kindness and mercy, significantly increased the marital satisfaction of the experimental group compared to the control group. Also, the effect of this treatment on marital satisfaction of men and women has been the same.