Journal of Family Research
Year:2007 | Volume:3 | Issue:9|Papers Count:10

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of behavioral couple therapy on depression during pregnancy. 30 Couples were selected from pregnant women who met DSM- IV criteria for depression from the health centers of Kerman and were placed randomly in the experimental group (15 couples), and control group (15 couples). Both groups were assessed with Edinburgh questionnaire. The experimental couples received behavioral couple therapy for seven sessions. Data were analyzed using SPSS software. Results showed that depression in experimental group was significantly lower than the control group (P<0.05). In other words, behavioral couple therapy appeared to be effective in reduction of depression during pregnancy and postpartum depression.

The Purpose of the study was to investigate the correlation between couples forgiveness and their marital conflicts in Yazd province. Sample included 30 couples in Yazd who were selected randomly and were living together at least for 6 months. Family Forgiveness Scale (FFS), and Marital Conflicts Questionnaire were used to collect the data.Findings showed that there is a relationship between forgiveness and marital conflicts in 3 subscales: real understanding, error recognition and confirming, compensation and original family. There was also a significant relationship between forgiveness and marital conflicts in 2 subscales of personal relationship with the relatives, and family relationship with the partner's relatives and friends.

The present research investigates the relationship between attachment styles and marital satisfaction in married students of Teacher Training University. 62 married students (33 females) from human science faculty were selected via disposal sampling.Assessment instruments were ENRICH questionnaire and Revised Adult Attachment Scale (RAAS). Data was analyzed using SPSS. It was found that there is a positive significant relationship between attachment styles and marital satisfaction. It means that students with secure attachment style indicated higher marital satisfaction than students with insecure attachment styles; in addition, no significant difference was found between male and female students in marital satisfaction; Finally. There was no significant difference between male and female students in attachment styles.

Child abuse can have serious destructive effects on children's mental health and development. Throughout the years, some studies have been conducted to utilize drawing tests in a practical manner for the assessment of the effects of child abuse. This study was to compare drawing test results of physically abused children with those of normal children. A sample of 50 physically abused and 50 normal (N = 100) children were selected via purposive sampling. Both groups of subjects were assessed by Human Figure, House, Tree, and Family Drawings. Multiple and one-way analysis of variance was performed: Hotelling's Trace Test compared the groups across variables of depression, anxiety, aggression, low self esteem, and guilt feelings. The abused children group rated significantly higher than the normal group in all four tests, except on the variable guilt feelings which was omitted due to its constancy in the control group's first three tests. Physically abused children are more depressed, anxious, and aggressive than normal children. They also posses lower self esteem and suffer from more guilt feelings.

The goal of the present research was to investigate the quality of parent-child relationship as the precondition of the children religious education. Three hundred seventy four students of Shahid Beheshti Universities and Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences were selected through accessible proportional stratified sampling and completed questionnaires measuring parenting style scale (Naghashap.1979).Data were analyzed using Chi square and one way ANOVA. Results showed that parenting style has a main effect on the children religious education. Authoritative parenting style was significantly more frequent in parents who invested on religious training of children in comparison with those who had negative parenting style. It was also found that in different sources of religious cognition, a significant difference between different kinds of parenting exists. Based on the results, parent-child relationship can be interpreted in the light of theories of object relations, attachment and social learning. These theories suppose that children with a more optimal parents-child relationship would develop a more positive religious socialization.

Many studies have indicated that love, as a psychic Phenomenon, is an important predictor of happiness, satisfaction, and positive emotions. The present research examined the relationship between companionate and passionate love and satisfaction with life and positive and negative affect. 123 married university students (63 females) were selected. Scales of Passionate Love and Companionate Love were used to assess love, and subjective wellbeing was measured by Satisfaction with Life Scale and Positive Affect and Negative Scale. The data were analyzed using multivariable regression methods. Results show that regardless of gender differences, relationship between companionate love and satisfaction with life is positive and significant and with negative affect is inversely significant. It was found that Passionate love doesn't have any significant relationship with subjective wellbeing components, but gender differences found only between companionate love and positive and negative affect. In females, the relationship between companionate love and positive affect was positively significant and with negative affect was inversely significant; however, in the males the relationship between companionate love and positive and negative affect was not significant. Therefore, the present research shows that love does not simply bring happiness and the relationship between love and subjective wellbeing is multidimensional. In general, the results support the important role that love plays in subjective wellbeing components.

Comparing general health and social support between 2 groups of elders, living with their families and based in nursing homes (50 elders) was the objective of the study.General health questionnaire (GHQ) and Philips social support test were applied to collect the data.This research is "causal - comparative research" using multiple factor variance analysis (MANOV A) with Tukey follow-up. It was found that there is a significant difference between general health and its components of corporeal indication, anxiety, and disorder in social function, depression, and social support of groups. For testing difference between genders on two variables, a 2×2 ANOVA was utilizated and results showed no significant difference between genders based on social support test.