A social work study on the effect of controlling self-talk on women’s life satisfaction

This paper presents an empirical investigation on measuring the effects of controlling self-talk on women’s life satisfaction. The proposed study selected a sample of 34 women who visited counseling center in city of Najaf Abad, Iran. The study divided them into two groups of experiment and control where the first group were requested into eight counseling sessions of 90 minutes on controlling self-talk for a period of two months. The instrument in this study was Enrich couple satisfaction questionnaire, which measured the couple’s satisfaction in twelve different categories. The data was analyzed using covariance analysis method and the test results indicated that instructing internal self-talking could increase the rate of couple’s satisfaction (p < 0.05).