Community Health Journal

Community Health Journal

Effectiveness of Sexual Education on Marital Offence-Specific Forgiveness and Marriage Stability of Married Women in Abadan City

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
M Azarkish 1
F Naderi 2
P Askari 3
A Heidarei 3
1 PhD Student, Dept of General Psychology, Pardis College of Science and Research of Khuzestan & Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
2 Associate Prof, Dept of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
3 Associate Prof, Dept of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
10.22123/chj.2018.121280.1110
Abstract
Introduction: The stability of a family, as the smallest social unit, is strengthened particularly if women play an active and effective role. Sexual education is one of the most important educational needs of married women. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of sexual education on marital offence-specific forgiveness and marriagestability of married women in Abadan City.
Materials and Methods: The present study is an experimental investigation with pre- and post-test and a control group. Among all married women referred to the Consultation and Psychology Clinic at Abadan Oil Hospital in the summer of 2017, 40 women were selected by simple random sampling method. They were then randomly divided into two groups of 20, experimental and control group. The experimental group received sex education for 6 weekly sessions of 2 hours. Data were collected using Paleari & et al’s marital offence-specific forgiveness scale and Edwars & et al’s marriageinstability index and analyzed by MANCOVA and ANCOVA in based MANCOVA methods using SPSS-21 software.
Results: The findings showed that sex education significantly led to enhancement of marital offence-specific forgiveness (F=271/68, p<0/001) and marriagestability (F=194/53, p<0/001) of the married women.
Conclusion: Based on our results, sexual education could be an effective method in promotion of the marital offence-specific forgiveness and marriagestability in married women.
Keywords
Sexual Education
Marital Offence-Specific Forgiveness
MarriageStability
Married women
Abadan
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