Abstract
Background & Objectives: Stability of marriage requires awareness of the impact of your choices. Reality therapy can be effective in increasing differentiation and reducing couples' jealousy. The aim of this research was the effectiveness of reality therapy on the differentiation and jealousy of couples referring to counseling centers in Yazd.
Methods: The research method was a semi-experimental type of pre-test, post-test design with a control group and the statistical population of this research included all the couples who referred to counseling centers in Yazd city in 1402-1401, and 30 people were voluntarily selected by available sampling method. and were placed in two control and experimental groups by random sampling. The research tools were differentiation questionnaire (Skorn et al., 1998), jealousy (Valizadeh and Azarbaijani, 2018). The experimental group received reality therapy during 8 1-hour sessions, and the control group did not receive any intervention. The data of the research was analyzed using the analysis of covariance test and through SPSS25 statistical software
Results: The results showed that reality therapy is effective on the differentiation and jealousy of couples referring to counseling centers in Yazd city (p<0.05). Also, the results showed that reality therapy is effective on differentiation and jealousy (p<0.05).
Conclusion: According to the obtained results, reality therapy can improve differentiation and jealousy in couples with marital problems.
Keywords: Reality therapy, differentiation, jealousy, couples.