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Emotion-Focused Couple-Based Interventions on Wives Emotional Abuse and Marital Satisfaction

Background: Emotional abuse is a serious type of abuse and comprises a large part of many couples’ lives. Marital relationship is in every society and is well-known as one of the most important resources in human relationships. Emotional Abuse Behaviors and marital satisfaction among married couples might be affected by an emotionally focused intervention. Emotionally focused intervention for couples gives a chance for wives and husbands to achieve adequate Foresight for their relationship of marriage and emotionally empower them to handle their problems Aim: The study aimed to evaluate the effect of emotion-focused couple-based interventions on the wives’ emotional abuse and marital satisfaction Design: A quasi experimental research design with a pretest-posttest was used to achieve the aim of the study. Setting: This study was conducted at the MCH center at El-Batanoon, Shebin EL-Kom, Menoufia Governorate, Egypt. Sample: sample was 50 couples (100 participants). Data collection: Three tools were used; Structured interview questionnaire, Gottman emotional abuse scale, and marital satisfaction Scale. Results: Revealed that there is a highly statistically significant difference in all marital satisfaction dimensions as emotional satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, general satisfaction, economical, time spending satisfaction, and total marital satisfaction score pre and post the emotionally focused interventions at (p-value = 0.001). Also, there is a highly significant reduction in emotional abuse post the emotionally focused interventions at p = 0.001 Conclusion: according to the results of the study, it was determined that the Emotion-focused couple-based interventions help reduce the wives' emotional abuse and improving marital satisfaction. Recommendations: Based on the findings of the present study, implementation of the Emotion-focused couple-based interventions in the routine treatments of Community Centers help reduce the wives' emotional abuse and improving marital satisfaction