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Tatary N, Mirmehdy S R, Zanganeh Motlagh F. Comparing the Effectiveness of Premarital Training Based on Halford's Couple Relationship Education and Adlerian Premarital Approach on Partner's Controlling Behaviors and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation of Girls and Boys Asking for Marriage. MEJDS 2024; 14 :98-98
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Premarital Training Based on Halford's Couple Relationship Education and Adlerian Premarital Approach on Partner's Controlling Behaviors and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation of Girls and Boys Asking for Marriage
Neda Tatary1 , Seyed Reza Mirmehdy *2 , Firooze Zanganeh Motlagh3
1- PhD in General Psychology, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
2- Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
3- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
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Background & Objectives: Cognitive factors (interpersonal emotion regulation) are associated with an increased likelihood of intimate partner victimization. In addition, each variable of a partner's controlling behavior and interpersonal emotion regulation can impose many positive and negative consequences on the relationship between couples. Therefore, effective treatment of such factors should be considered. The premarital period is one of the critical steps in preventing severe problems in people's relationships. In many developed countries, such as the United Kingdom and the United States, couples are encouraged to participate in premarital counseling programs. The effectiveness of these programs in increasing marital satisfaction has been proven in developed countries and Iran. Thus, the present study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of premarital training based on Halford's Couple Relationship Education and Adlerian Premarital approach on Partner's control behaviors and interpersonal emotion regulation of girls and boys asking for marriage.
Methods: The current research method was quasi–experimental, with a multi–group pretest–posttest and a three–month follow–up phase design using a control group. The statistical population of the research included girls and boys applying for marriage who were referred to the counseling centers of Darreh–Shahr City of Ilam Province, Iran, from September 2023 to March 2024. Among them, 45 eligible volunteer boys and girls were selected by available sampling and based on the research criteria. They were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and a control group (15 people in each group). The inclusion criteria were as follows: the minimum age of the subjects was 18 years, informed consent to participate in research, minimum secondary education, not suffering from chronic psychological diseases, and not using any drugs. The exclusion criteria included unwillingness to participate in research, distorted questionnaires (failure to answer at least 5% of the questions in a questionnaire), absence of more than two sessions during the training course, and simultaneous participation in other counseling or psychotherapy programs. Ethical considerations included the informed consent of the participants, compliance with the principle of secrecy and confidentiality of information, and the absence of any harm to the subjects. To collect the data, the Controlling Behaviors Scale (Graham–Kevan & Archer, 2005) and the Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Hofmann et al., 2016) were used. For the first experimental group, premarital training based on Halford's Couple Relationship Education was conducted in six 90–minute sessions (once a week) as a group. For the second experimental group, the Adlerian premarital approach was implemented as a group during eight 90–minute sessions (once a week). After collecting data according to the level of data measurement and statistical assumptions (normality, homogeneity of variances, variance–covariance matrix, and Mauchly's sphericity test), the data were analyzed by analysis of variance with repeated measurements and Bonferroni's post hoc test in SPSS software version 23. The statistical level was set at 0.05.
Results: The results showed that the effect of group and time and the mutual effect of time and group on the partner's controlling behaviors and interpersonal emotion regulation were significant (p<0.05). In the posttest, the effect of Halford's couple relationship education was significant only on interpersonal emotion regulation compared with the control group (p=0.020). However, there was no significant effect on the partner's controlling behavior compared to the control group (p=0.341). In the posttest, premarital training with Adler's approach had a significant impact on the partner's controlling behaviors (p<0.001) and interpersonal emotion regulation (p<0.001) compared to the control group. In the posttest and follow–up, the scores of partner's controlling behaviors and interpersonal emotion regulation in the groups of Halford's couple relationship education and premarital training with Adler's approach were significantly different (p<0.05).
Conclusion: According to the findings, the Adlerian premarital approach is more effective in reducing the partner's controlling behaviors and improving interpersonal emotion regulation than Halford's couple relationship education in girls and boys applying for marriage.

Keywords: Adler, Interpersonal emotion regulation, Premarital education, Partner's controlling behaviors, Halford
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