Investigation of Group Cognitive-Behavioral Education on Self-Knowledge and Marital Satisfaction in Men Who Suffer Family Problems

The present research tries to investigate the influence of group cognitive-behavioral education on selfknowledge and marital satisfaction in men who suffer from family problems. Therefore, 30 people were selected from all men who suffered from family problems and referred to advice center of Abbas Abad city court over 4 months in a random way. They were divided into 2 groups (1 group was control group and the other was experiment group). Self-knowledge and marital satisfaction tests were conducted on the respondents (pretest). In order to conduct research experiment, cognitive-behavioral group education sessions were implemented on each of experiment groups. After re-implementation of experiments, data was gathered and statistically analyzed. The present research is an experimental research. In the present research, descriptive indices like diagram, mean and standard deviation and inferential indices like multi-variate covariance analysis (MANCOVA) and Bon Ferroniʹs test were used. Results showed that research hypotheses are verified and group cognitive-behavioral education method influences on marital satisfaction and self-knowledge.