Efficacy of training of positive affective on the rate of increasing marital satisfaction and insecure attachment style in married university students

Abstract

This
Research addresses the efficacy of the training of positive affective on
the marital satisfaction and attachment style, based on the importance of positive
psychological movement in this century .The hypothesis
of the research was that the training of positive affect lead
to marital satisfaction and changing of attachment style. This research
was Quasi-experimental with 2 groups pretest –posttest design. The
population of this study was all of the Iranian married students, and the
available population was married students of Allame Tabatabaei university with
insecure attachment style ,that 24 of them were selected according to available
sampling. Then they were assigned in experimental and control group , which
each group has 12 members. The Instrument of this research was the questionnaire of personal
experiences in relationships (ECR-R) and Enrich Satisfaction questionnaire (short-form ) ,
positive & negative affect Questionnaire(PANAS) and pilot of treatment on
the increasing positive affect. The result of independent T analysis indicated
that training of increasing positive affect lead to the increasing of marital
satisfaction and changing the attachment style in the married
students with insecure attachment style

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