THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MARITAL SKILLS TRAINING ON MARITAL SATISFACTION OF MARRIED EMPLOYEES IN KURDISTAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of marital skills training on marital satisfaction of married workers in the medical sciences university. The research design was a pre-test-post-test design with control group. The statistical population of this study consisted of all married employees of the Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences who were living in the first six months of their life. The sample was randomized and included 30 subjects. After random sampling, the experimental and control groups were first performed on both groups of pretest, then an experimental intervention was presented in 8 sessions. After the completion of the program, a post-test was performed on the group. In this research, the tool of satisfaction was used by Olson et al. (1989). Validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by the experts and their reliability in a preliminary study for marital satisfaction (0.845) was used to analyze the findings of the analysis of variance test with a significance level of 0.05. The results of this study indicate that marital skills training increases marital satisfaction and satisfaction, in other words, the subjects who received marital skills training were compared to those who had this marital satisfaction They did not receive any training, had more marital and sexual consent, so the result could be said that marital skills are variable in explaining the satisfaction Sexual and marital affairs have a significant role .Also, all statistical analysis was performed using SPSS software version 22.