Islamic Journal of Women and the Family
Year:2019 | Volume:7 | Issue:16|Papers Count:6

This study, which was conducted with a quasi-experimental method and pretest-posttest design with a control group, aimed to investigate the effectiveness of solution-driven counseling on marital forgiveness and boredom among incompatible women. The population included all women referring to Ardabil courthouse for divorcing in 2016 and 30 of them were selected by the convenience sampling and equally placed in two test and control groups. The data were collected by both forgiveness and Pines' marital boredom questionnaires. The results of the analysis of covariance demonstrated that solution-driven counseling significantly increases the level of forgiveness and decreases the level of marital boredom among incompatible women. These results can be support this issue that solution-driven counseling can be applied for reducing marital boredom and raising forgiveness among incompatible women to prevent family foundation to be collapsed and improve marital relationships.

Paying attention to mental health, particularly girls' mental health, is very important. According to religious teachings, happiness, as well as obedience to God, avoidance of sin, revival of values, and spiritual change, are among the most important factors of improving mental health. This descriptive research was conducted with the purpose of analyzing the relationship of mental health and happiness with demographic characteristics of girl students of University of Qom. The population included all girl students of University of Qom in the academic year 2017-2018 and 351 girls were selected as the sample by the stratified sampling. The data were gathered by Goldberg's general health questionnaire and Oxford happiness inventory and they were analyzed by the Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test, and analysis of variance. The results showed that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between mental health and happiness (r=0/526, P<0/05). In addition, happiness has a significant relationship with the aspects of mental health including physical health, anxiety and insomnia, social dysfunction, and depression, respectively, with correlation coefficients of 0/150, 0/336, 0/619, and 0/459 (P<0/05). There is a meaningful difference among students' happiness in terms of the variables of age, education, and marital status, but there is not a meaningful difference among students' happiness in different faculties (P>0/05). Mental health does not have a significant relationship with age and different faculties (P>0/05), but it has a significant relationship with education and marital status (P<0/05). According to the results, it is suggested that students are provided with the opportunity to increase their intrinsic and rational happiness which is also approved by religious teachings.

Pregnancy is a selection that obviously depends on estimating the costs and benefits of childbirth and numerous factors influence this selection. This descriptive study was conducted to investigate the effects of mental poverty on a human's perception of benefits and costs of pregnancy by referring to Islamic sources; thus, related sources including Islamic papers and books were reviewed and after that, it was determined that there was no research that had examined the subject of this study. The findings and results of the present study showed that mental poverty causes people to estimate the benefits and advantages of childbirth less and its costs more than normal that its practical result is the reduction of pregnancy rate. Some factors such as having a material approach to childbirth leads people to estimate its benefits less and some factors including not believing in blessing and not following a good lifestyle causes them to estimate its costs more than normal. Believing in God as the only provider and his wisdom causes mental poverty and the fear of poverty to be decreased and finally it will result in increasing pregnancy rate. Therefore, it is necessary to prevent from spreading mental poverty in society to achieve the aim of increasing pregnancy rate.

This research, which was conducted with a quasi-experimental method and pretest-posttest design with a control group, aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Islamic spiritual-religious group therapy on marital happiness and the quality of marital perceived relationship among women having an experience in marital boredom. The population was all married women referring to counseling clinics and centers of Tabriz. After responding to the questionnaire of marital boredom by them, 24 women who scored higher than the average were selected by the convenience sampling and placed in two test and control groups. The data were collected by the questionnaires of marital boredom and marital happiness as well as the scale of the quality of perceived relationship. The one-way ANCOVA (analysis of covariance) demonstrated that Islamic spiritual-religious group therapy significantly increases the level of marital happiness and the quality of marital perceived relationship (P<0/05). Accordingly, family psychologists and advisers are able to use Islamic spiritual-religious group therapy among women to increase marital happiness, the quality of marital perceived relationship, and as a result, improving marital life quality.

From the viewpoint of Imamieh and Sunni jurists, the lack of defamation of witness is considered as a condition of the validity of testimony. Although legislator does not stipulate the lack of defamation as a condition in the Constitution, this matter can be deduced from note 2 of Article 1313 of the same rule as well as paragraph 6 of Article 155 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The value of each of couples' testimony in favor of the other, affected by the mentioned condition, is one of the issues that jurists do not have an agreement with that. According to Hanafi, Maleki, and Hanbali jurists, such a testimony is not acceptable and from the viewpoint of Imami and Shafei religions, it is more acceptable. This descriptive-analytical study examined the presented ideas on this issue with the purpose of seeking the probative value of this testimony. Based on the results, what is raised is that this testimony can be taken into account as a judicial presumption. Therefore, if there are husband's or wife's testimony in favor of the other and one more evidence, that testimony will be valuable and valid, in which a judge can come to the conclusion by the sum of husband's or wife's testimony and one more evidence such as another person's testimony and a plaintiff's oath.

White marriage is a crime which does not have any direct victims and encompasses the crimes of prohibited relations, adultery, and illegal abortions. This research aimed to identify the factors of tendency to white marriage and explain it sociologically regarding its sociological aspects using a qualitative-quantitative approach. The population included all students of Islamic Azad University in the city of Eslamshahr and 54 of them were selected by the convenience sampling for the quantitative part of this research and 14 of them were purposefully selected, based on the theoretical saturation of the interview, for the qualitative part. The data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire with 55 statements and they were analyzed by the t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient. According to the results, white marriage has a significant and positive relationship with feminist beliefs, the lack of belief in religious norms and principles, bad economic situations and unemployment, opposition to traditional marriage, pleasure-seeking, friendship with people having an experience in white marriage, family breakup, the lack of independent punishment for white marriage, the lack of public oversight, gaining support for women and the lack of commitment and responsibility in white marriage.