The Effectiveness of Feldman Multilevel Integrative Approach Training on Increase Marital Relationship Transparency and Decrease Divorce Tendency in Divorce Seeking Couples

Introduction: Divorce seeking couples have many problems in their marital relationships and one of the most effective methods to improve marital characteristics related life is Feldman multilevel integrative approach training method. Therefore, present research aimed to determine the effectiveness of Feldman multilevel integrative approach training on increase marital relationship transparency and decrease divorce tendency in divorce seeking couples. Methods: Present study was a semi-experimental with a pretest and posttest design with control group. The research community was including couples seeking divorce of Alborz city referred to Hami Khanevadeh counseling center in 2019 year. The research sample was 20 couples with low scores in marital relationship transparency and high scores in divorce tendency were selected by available sampling method and were replaced by random assignment method in experimental and control groups. The experimental group participated in 8 sessions of 90 minutes of Feldman multilevel integrative approach training and the control group was placed on the waiting list for training. Data collected with the scales of marital relationship transparency (Saeedifard & et al, 2016) and divorce tendency (Rusbult & et al, 1986) in the pretest, posttest and two months follow-up phases and analyzed by repeated measures method. Results: The findings showed that Feldman multilevel integrative approach training led to increase the marital relationship transparency and decrease the divorce tendency in divorce seeking couples and the stability of results was maintained after two months (P<0.05). Conclusions: Regarded to the results, planning to use the method of Feldman multilevel integrative approach training is necessary to increasing marital relationship transparency and decreasing divorce tendency in divorce seeking couples.