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Abstract Aim and Background: The purpose of this study was to compare vitality, marital adjustment  and difficulties in cognitive – emotional regulation in parents of deaf children and normal children. The research design is descriptive and comparative. The study population consisted of all parents of students with deaf and normal boys and girls. Study group of 50 parents of students with deaf and a comparable group of 50 parents are normal. Methods and Materials: Method of sampling is random. Analysis of the data involved both descriptive and inferential statistics including means, standard deviations, and multivariate analysis of variance, Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient and regression analysis. The research instrument was Deci& Ryan validity questionnaire (1977), Spiner Marital adjustment questionnaire (1978), Inventory difficulties in cognitive – emotional regulation (2004). Findings: The results indicate that there are significant differences between the two groups in vitality, marital adjustment and difficulties in cognitive – emotional regulation. Conclusions: According to the present findings, can be concluding that the reduction of difficulties in cognitive – emotional regulation can be increased emotional satisfaction and vitality in the group of parents with deaf children.

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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 first years of marriage are the most enjoyable and, at the same time, the most difficult and most risky periods of Common life of couples. Therefore, the current research was done with the aim of examining the effectiveness of Group training based on choice theory on marital adjustment and sexual satisfaction of couples. Methods and Materials : This research is a semi-experimental with pretest-posttest design and control group. The statistical population of the research includes all couples in first year of their common life who suffered from marital problems and sexual dissatisfaction and in 2016 they went to the Basirat Clinic of counseling and assisting in Isfahan. From this population, 20 couples (20 women and 20 men) were selected by voluntary sampling method and after matching were randomly assigned to experimental (20 people) and control (20 people) groups. The subjects of experimental group received eight sessions of training based on the theory of choice, however, the control group did not receive any training. The questionnaires of Spanier's marital adjustment (1976) and Larsson's sexual satisfaction (1998) were distributed before and after educational interventions as pretest and posttest on all subjects. The findings of the research were analyzed with Multivariate Analysis of Covariance and SPSS-18 software. Findings: The findings indicated that there is a significant difference between the mean of posttest scores of the marital adjustment (F= 12/32, P<0/01) and sexual satisfaction (F= 8/66, P<0/01) for experiment and control groups after adjusting the covariate effect of the pretest. However, there was no significant difference between the mean scores of marital adjustment and sexual satisfaction of male and female participants (P>0/05). Conclusions: It seems that group training based on choice theory, can help improve marital adjustment and sexual satisfaction of couples by informing couples of basic needs, external control psychology, and the use of seven loving habits instead of destructive habits.

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Aim and Background: Intolerance and hurry of couples in making decision of divorce and remarriage has been weakened foundation of family. Therefore, the aim of this research was to comparison of dyadic satisfaction, dyadic cohesion, affectional expression, dyadic consensus, and marital adjustment among spouses with first marriage and remarriage. Materials and Methods: The population of the research includes all families with first marriage and remarriage in Mazandaran province. The sample of this study was 1127 subjects of (251 subjects with remarriage and 313 subjects with first marriage) which were selected through convenience sampling. Participants completed Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS). The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and U Man-Whitney Test. Findings: Results showed that mean score of dyadic satisfaction, dyadic cohesion, affectional expression, dyadic consensus, and totally marital adjustment are in families with remarriage are more than families with first marriage ( p <.05). Conclusion: Findings showed that couple should not avoid of problems and they do not make decision about divorce rapidly and they do not remarriage after divorce immediately. These issues should consider in divorce counseling and couple counseling before making decision for divorce by psychologist and family therapist. Also, couples should be prevented hurry in divorce decision and remarriage.

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Aim and Background: Intimacy and marital compatibility between couples maintain and strengthen the family foundation. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a methodology based on cognitive bias correction and to determine the effectiveness of its training on bias, intimacy and adaptation of couples with marital incompatibility.
Methods and Materials: The research method was quasi-experimental and the design of the pretest, posttest research was with the control group. The statistical population of the study was couples with marital problems who referred to counseling centers in Arak in 1398. The sample consisted of 16 couples (32 people) with marital incompatibility and cognitive bias who were selected by available methods. Data were collected using the Lock-Wallace (1959) Compatibility Questionnaire, Walker-Thompson (1983) Marital Intimacy Questionnaire, and the Point-of-Exploration Assignment Software (2015). Multivariate analysis of covariance was used to analyze the data and examine the relationships between variables.  
Findings: The results showed that the treatment method based on the correction of cognitive bias has an acceptable content validity. Also, the results of the educational intervention showed that the training of the method significantly reduces the cognitive bias of the couple and increases the intimacy and adaptation of the couple (P≤0.001).
Conclusions: It seems that training in the treatment method based on cognitive bias correction can be considered as a valid and effective program to reduce cognitive bias and increase intimacy and compatibility of incompatible couples.

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Aim and Background: The educational intervention program for spouses refers to another intervention that prevents people and their relationships from the common vices of married life by reducing the number of destructive relationships and strengthening constructive behaviors. Educational interventions are usually aimed at protecting spouses from risk factors, such as destructive relationship patterns and irrational beliefs, and building supportive relationship factors, such as positive attitudes and marital intimacy.
Methods and Materials: In this research, the researcher has used a quantitative method. For this purpose, 20 couples were selected to implement the protocol. The research method at this stage will be a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The selected subjects in both experimental and control groups were measured by pre-test. The required data collection tool was through a questionnaire and the results were analyzed by the variance of repeated measurements. The Shapiro-Wilk normality test was used to test the normality of the distribution of scores related to several studies, and pairwise comparisons were also tested using the Bonferroni test.
Findings: The researcher investigated her research in the form of three hypotheses, and the results showed that the educational package has a positive and significant effect on emotional intimacy, marital compatibility, and reducing marital conflicts and the results were smaller than 0.005.
Conclusions: The hypotheses of the research were confirmed and it can be said that the educational package of sustainable life based on the lived experience of couples with experience of divorce is effective on emotional intimacy and this effect has been lasting. Also, the results showed that the training package increased marital compatibility in the experimental group compared to the control group and also decreased marital conflicts.