The primary objective of this investigation was to offer a marriage
enrichment workshop enabling the participants to increase their
communication and problem solving skills, and the prevention of future
marital distress through an educational experience.
Marital communication and marital adjustment scores were
obtained from an experimental group consisting of 16 married Indian
couples living in the United States who attended a marriage enrichment
workshop. These scores were compared with those scores derived from 16
married Indian couples living in the United States who participated in a
marriage enrichment workshop at a later date.
Nineteen hypotheses were generated which assumed that couples
participating in a marriage enrichment workshop would experience a
significant increase in their level of marital communication and marital
adjustment.
The five-session workshop was conducted on five consecutive
Saturdays, the duration of each session being three hours. The format for
the workshop included the exercises designed by Hendrix (1988) to improve
communication skills and practice new relationship skills. The importance
of creating a more loving and supportive relationship was emphasized in
the workshop.
The instruments used to study the dependent variables were the
Marital Communication Inventory and the Marital Adjustment Test. The
statistical treatment applied was Analysis Of Variance with repeated
measures. Subjects were tested on the first day of the workshop, the last day
of the workshop, and finally five weeks after the marriage enrichment
workshop.
The results indicated that the marriage enrichment workshop had
moderately significant positive effect on marital communication and
marital adjustment. The level of communication and adjustment showed
consistent statistically significant increase over time (five week delay) after
the workshop. In addition, the results established positive correlation
between marital communication and marital adjustment. Finally, the
content of the workshop designed by Hendrix (1988) was much appreciated
by all participants and they identified remarkable similarity between the
the Western thought and the Eastern culture. / Graduation date: 1997
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/33906 |
| Date | 07 May 1997 |
| Creators | Vijayalakshmi, Olaganatha P. |
| Contributors | Collison, Brooke |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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