The effectiveness of Islamic based on happiness training on increasing subjective vitality and positive affect and reducing negative affect in women with marital conflict

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

1 Ph.D. student of Educational Psychology, Science and Research, Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

3 Associate professor of educational psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.

4 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

This study aims was to investigate  the effectiveness of Islamic happiness education on training vitality and positive and negative effects in women with marital conflict in a quasi-experimental design of pre-test and post-test type with a control group. The population of this study included women with marital conflicts referred to counseling centers in the east of Tehran city in that thirty womens were selected using voluntary-purposive sampling method and randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. The participants of the experimental group underwent 8 sessions of 90 minutes of Islamic happiness training, and the participants of experimental and control groups completed the Subjective Vitality Scale and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule at the beginning and end of the intervention. Analysis of covariance statistical method and SPSS-21 software at the was used for data analysis. According to the results, Islamic happiness education in women with marital conflict was effective in improving mental vitality and positive affects, and reducing negative emotions. Therefore, happiness and Islamic-oriented interventions can help married people to improve the level of subjective vitality and reducing positive and negative affect.

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Biannual Journal of Applied Counseling
Volume 12, Issue 1
September 2022
Pages 153-174

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  • Receive Date: 21 October 2021
  • Revise Date: 07 January 2022
  • Accept Date: 06 February 2022

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