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Background & Objective: Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an important mental disorder because of its prevalence and associated disability, and because it is a key example of a group of conditions known as obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by obsessions and/or compulsions. Obsessions are repetitive and persistent images, impulses, or urges that are intrusive and unwanted, and are usually associated with anxiety. Compulsions are repetitive behaviors or mental actions that a person feels they perform in response to an obsession to follow rigid rules or to achieve a sense of completeness. Obsessive-compulsive disorder patients have many psychological problems such as marital satisfaction. It seems very necessary to pay attention to the treatment of these patients who have a high prevalence and many problems. Today, due to the high percentage of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder in modern society and the psychological problems that arise for these people, and also because positive psychological treatment has rarely been used to treat the problems of these people, and also because So far, no study has investigated the effectiveness of positive psychology on marital adjustment and self-esteem of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of positive psychology on the marital satisfaction of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Methods: This study was a semi-experimental type with pre-test and post-test with control group. Among the patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder aged 25 to 45 referring to psychology clinics in Yazd, 30 eligible volunteers were included in the study, 15 of them were randomly assigned to the intervention group and 15 to the control group. They were witnessed. Enrich Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire scores (1993) were compared before and after group positive psychology treatment. Data analysis was done using covariance analysis. The significance level of the tests was 0.05.
Results: Data analysis showed that the score of the marital satisfaction test in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder in the intervention group and after receiving treatment increased significantly compared to the control group (P=0.001).
Conclusion: The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of positive psychology on marital satisfaction of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The results of the present study showed that positive psychology treatment has a significant effect on the marital satisfaction of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder in Yazd city and can lead to the improvement of marital satisfaction in these patients.
Studies have shown that people with a positive mindset when faced with problem-solving situations and marital problems, instead of increasing arguments and conflicts and creating stress and anxiety in themselves and the other party, they try to use problem-oriented and supportive coping strategies to solve the problem. and avoid emotion-based coping strategies that cause psychological damage such as anxiety and depression, because their purpose in creating a marital relationship is to provide satisfaction in life, reduce anger and increase happiness.
The positive psychology training program, focusing on the compassionate mind, which includes a kind of compassionate relationship with oneself, helps to change people by creating care, attention to oneself, and suggesting compassionate internal processes, rather than solving internal conflicts. The changes are interpreted as a kind of physiological, psychological and neurological treatment. Therefore, positive psychology can help to increase cognitive function, improve quality of life, and reduce the problems of people with various disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, and take steps to improve self-compassion. As a result, it can be expected that the positive psychology training method can play an effective role in increasing the self-compassion of obsessive-compulsive disorder sufferers and reduce their strictness towards themselves and their partners and lead to an improvement in marital satisfaction. in these people.
Because patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder have an inflexible mentality and have strict and unchangeable mental frameworks, positive psychology can increase the amount of It increases his flexibility in relation to others, especially his wife, and leads to a better relationship and intimacy with his partner, and this can improve the marital satisfaction of these people.
Methods: This study was a semi-experimental type with pre-test and post-test with control group. Among the patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder aged 25 to 45 referring to psychology clinics in Yazd, 30 eligible volunteers were included in the study, 15 of them were randomly assigned to the intervention group and 15 to the control group. They were witnessed. Enrich Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire scores (1993) were compared before and after group positive psychology treatment. Data analysis was done using covariance analysis. The significance level of the tests was 0.05.
Results: Data analysis showed that the score of the marital satisfaction test in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder in the intervention group and after receiving treatment increased significantly compared to the control group (P=0.001).
Conclusion: The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of positive psychology on marital satisfaction of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The results of the present study showed that positive psychology treatment has a significant effect on the marital satisfaction of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder in Yazd city and can lead to the improvement of marital satisfaction in these patients.
Studies have shown that people with a positive mindset when faced with problem-solving situations and marital problems, instead of increasing arguments and conflicts and creating stress and anxiety in themselves and the other party, they try to use problem-oriented and supportive coping strategies to solve the problem. and avoid emotion-based coping strategies that cause psychological damage such as anxiety and depression, because their purpose in creating a marital relationship is to provide satisfaction in life, reduce anger and increase happiness.
The positive psychology training program, focusing on the compassionate mind, which includes a kind of compassionate relationship with oneself, helps to change people by creating care, attention to oneself, and suggesting compassionate internal processes, rather than solving internal conflicts. The changes are interpreted as a kind of physiological, psychological and neurological treatment. Therefore, positive psychology can help to increase cognitive function, improve quality of life, and reduce the problems of people with various disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, and take steps to improve self-compassion. As a result, it can be expected that the positive psychology training method can play an effective role in increasing the self-compassion of obsessive-compulsive disorder sufferers and reduce their strictness towards themselves and their partners and lead to an improvement in marital satisfaction. in these people.
Because patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder have an inflexible mentality and have strict and unchangeable mental frameworks, positive psychology can increase the amount of It increases his flexibility in relation to others, especially his wife, and leads to a better relationship and intimacy with his partner, and this can improve the marital satisfaction of these people.
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