Investigation of Efficacy of Time Education Plan on the Augmentation of Women’s Martial Satisfaction

Authors
Mojtaba Babolhakami
Ahmad Abbasi Anabad
Abstract
Introduction

The current study aims to investigate the effects of Time Education Plan (marriage enrichment) on the augmentation rate of women’s marital satisfaction.

Materials and Methods

The current study is a quasi-experimental one of the posttest and pretest type with the control group. In this regard, 30 married women paid a visit to counseling centers in zones 1, 8, 11 located in Mashhad, Iran in December 2015; they were selected by the convenience sampling with respect to couples’ acceptance factor for the enrichment-training plan. Moreover, they were categorized into experimental and control groups based on random sampling. Thanks to marital satisfaction enrichment questionnaire, data were collected for the control and experimental groups to evaluate couples’ marital satisfaction. Based on the objective plan, the experimental group received time plan education for every 2 hours in 10 sessions, while no interference was made to the control group. At the end of the education course, the same questionnaire process was conducted under the posttest phase. The obtained results were subjected again to statistical evaluation. Data analysis was carried out through independent T test and ANCOVA covariance.

Results

With respect to age control and educational tests, independent T test results indicate the meaningful efficacy of Time Plan on the augmentation rate of women’s marital satisfaction who are placed in the experiment group as compared to the control group (P>0.0001 & t=8.53).

Conclusion

Our findings indicate the significance and effect of Time Education Plan (marriage enrichment) on the augmentation rate of women’s marital satisfaction.
Keywords
Education
Marriage
Satisfaction
Women
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