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2- PhD of Counseling, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran.
3- PhD of Family Counseling, Associate Professor, Department of Counselling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
4- PhD of Counseling, Associate Professor, Department of Counselling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
Objectives The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of premarital education based on interpersonal choice and knowledge program in reducing idealistic marital expectation.
Methods This research was a experimental design with pretest-posttest and follow-up with the control group. From this population, 38 volunteer single students of universities of Ahvaz city were selected on the basis of 1 standard deviation higher of the mean of idealistic marital expectation subscale and were assigned randomly to experiment group (n=19) and control group (n=19). The experiment group was given a premarital interpersonal choice and knowledge program of 9 sessions, twice a week for 90 minutes.
Results The results of analysis of variance repeated measures showed that the premarital interpersonal choice and knowledge program training has led to a reduction in idealistic marital expectation in the experimental group than in the control group at posttest and follow-up.
Conclusion Our results showed that the premarital interpersonal choice and knowledge program is a suitable method for reducing the idealistic marital expectation singles.
Received: 2015/05/29 | Accepted: 2016/04/4 | Published: 2017/10/1
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