Comparison the effectiveness of the Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) and Solution-Focused Couple Therapy (SFCT) on happiness and inefficient marital communicational attitudes Download PDF

The purpose of the present study is to determine the effectiveness of emotion-focused and solution-focused couple therapy on increasing the happiness and improving the communicational attitudes of couples in Neyshabur. Happiness is a component that has entered to the psychology field from positive perspective psychology. Also, attitudes have important role in improving psychological health and inter-personal relationships; and according to this theory, our personal withdraws can lead us toward healthy relationships or disorder in relationships. Emotion-focused strategy that focuses on interest emotions of couples is following couples relationships by increasing positive emotions. Solution-focused strategy is also helping couples to be powerful to solve their problems. Due to the methodology, the present study is practical and due to the performance it is semi-experimental (by pre-test and post-test with Control group). Statistical community consisted of all conflicting and incompatible couples of Neyshabur in 2013-14, and 15 couples have been selected by available sampling and have been placed randomly in two groups of Experimental and Control. Data have been obtained after screening level (interviewing with concentration on history, marital problems and control variables) by marital Happiness Scale (MHS) and Relation Beliefs Questionnaire (RBQ). The independent variable was emotion-focused and solution-focused couple therapy that experimental group received couple therapy for 8 sessions (1.5 hours). During this time the control group did not receive any specific intervention. After the end of these sessions, research toolswere represented. So, by mixed covariance analysis and obtained data covariance has been analyzed. The result of this research demonstrated that although both therapy methods are effective on improving happiness and inefficient marital communicational attitudes, but emotion-focused couple therapy is more effective in contrast with solution-focused strategy and solution-focused method in improving marital communicational attitudes is more effective than emotion-focused method.