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Aim and Background: Among important variables in family studies are adjustment and marital satisfaction. These two variables have a significant role in studies on family and marital relationships and can be created with the effort of couples in marital relationships. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of emotional focused couple therapy on marital satisfaction and adjustment in couples. Methods and Materials: The research method was semi-experimental and the sample included 30 incompatible couples with low marital satisfaction. who had referred to the council centers of Isfahan, Iran, in 2014, and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Two couples from the experiment group and three couples from the control group did not attend the follow-up session. The experimental group participated in 14 emotional focused couple therapy sessions that were performed by family counseling expert and couple therapist, while the control group received no treatment. The participants completed marital satisfaction questionnaire and marital adjustment test. Findings: Emotional focused couple therapy could increase marital satisfaction and adjustment in post-test (P < 0.01) and follow-up (P < 0.01) stages. The impact on the post-test phase was more than follow-up. Conclusions: It is suggested to carry out more research among different cultures with fewer or more sessions than the present study and with equalization of studied groups. The effect of this method on other dimensions of marital relationship like conflict, excitement expression, sexual problems and marital intimacy should be measured in the next studies.

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Aim and Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of 12-week physical activity on resiliency, subjective well-being, and work engagement among the female staff of Islamic Azad University. Methods and Materials: This semi-experimental research was carried out having pre- and post-test. The statistical population of this study consisted of 94 female staff of Parand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran; from whom, 72 person were purposively selected as samples and were randomly divided into experimental (n = 36) and control (n = 36) groups. The tools for gathering data were Konor and Davidson Resiliency Inventory, Schaufeli and Bakker Work Engagement Inventory, and Keyes and Magyar-Mae Subjective Well-Being Inventory. Data were analyzed via SPSS software, using one-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Findings: Aerobic exercise significantly increased resiliency, subjective well-being, and work engagement among the subjects (P ˂ 0.05 for all). The dimensions of mental health were not equally affected by the practice. The effect size was obtained 0.63, 0.49, and 0.09 in resiliency, work engagement, and Subjective well-being, respectively. Conclusions: Based on our findings, it is recommended that managers should provide opportunities for their employees to participate in physical activity plans in order to increase their resilience, mental well-being, and work engagement. Under this condition, organizational managers can effectively benefit from their active and healthy human resources.