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Ethics code: IR.IAU.KHSH.REC.1402.108
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Afkhami Ardakani M A, Javadzadeh Shahshahani F, Dayarian M M, Khanzadeh M. Promoting Marital Intimacy by Teaching Honesty from the Perspective of Islamic Hadiths with a Psychological Approach. RJMS 2024; 31 (1) :1-10
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Mohammad Alii Afkhami Ardakani 
, Fatemeh Javadzadeh Shahshahani , Mohammad Masoud Dayarian , Mostafa Khanzadeh
, Fatemeh Javadzadeh Shahshahani , Mohammad Masoud Dayarian , Mostafa Khanzadeh
Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, Khomeini Shahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran , javadzadeh@iaukhsh.ac.ir
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Background & Aims: One of the factors for the sustainability and promotion of marital intimacy is honesty. Certainly, teaching honesty requires knowing the components that constitute honesty and implementing practical solutions for honesty. Psychological theories have expressed the origin of intimacy differently. According to attachment theory, a person with a positive view of himself and others is considered a secure individual, and a person with a negative view of himself and others is considered far from attachment and intimacy. According to social exchange theory, relationship partners focus on their positive outcomes (reward) and negative outcomes (cost) in matters (including intimacy). According to social learning theory, every time partners perform positive behaviors, they learn that they can trust, and when they see negative behavior, trust decreases and they distance themselves from each other in terms of intimacy. According to the coercion theory, if people receive a suitable response from their partner after performing a specific behavior, they will continue that behavior and maintain their relationship. Marital intimacy is defined as the process of being in contact, understanding oneself and disclosing oneself in the presence of the spouse, and the emotional and psychological feelings of the couple, which are carried out in the light of empathy and self-disclosure and effective division of labor, sexual desires and establishing affection and affection, and the displayed actions of the human being at the levels of emotions, thoughts, words, physical states, self-being, acceptance, an atmosphere of trust and sexual relations. Some research has stated that the components of marital intimacy include effective personality, differentiation, marital attachment, enjoyable togetherness, family and religious teachings, rational maturity, conscious marriage, socio-economic issues, children and the transition to the parenthood stage, constructive couple interactions, instrumental and emotional support for the spouse, and improving the quality of marital life. Some articles introduce marital intimacy as a factor in creating a stable marriage. However, marital intimacy in Islamic teachings pays special attention to spiritual and godly attitudes and considers godliness to be a factor in the formation of intimate relationships. Some articles consider intimacy education enriched with Islamic teachings to be effective in reducing interpersonal problems between couples. Therefore, the main question of this research is: What effect do the components of honesty from the perspective of Islamic hadiths have on marital intimacy? As proposed in the background of the above research, no research has examined the relationship and effectiveness of the components of honesty in psychology and Islamic teachings on marital intimacy. This research was able to present for the first time the theoretical foundations of honesty and practical solutions for creating honesty in couples; in the hope that the goal of promoting marital and family intimacy in various dimensions, including marital intimacy with an Iranian-Islamic style, will be achieved and some of the harm in the family area will be reduced.
Methods: The present study was a content analysis of the hadiths of honesty and truthfulness to design an honesty training package and a pre-test, post-test, and analysis of covariance (descriptive and inferential statistics) method to measure the effect of honesty on marital intimacy. The statistical population consisted of 2000 members and permanent visitors of the marriage activists network in Ashkezar city in the period 2021-2022. The sample size was randomly selected from among the volunteers participating in the study and placed in two groups of 15 couples. The Bagaroozi (2001) marital intimacy questionnaire was used to collect data. The pre-test, post-test, and analysis of covariance methods were used to obtain results and analyze the data.
Results: The results of the study showed a significant increase in the effectiveness of honesty training in some of the eight dimensions of marital intimacy. The results of the multivariate analysis of covariance showed that the significance level of the group was 0.044 (P<0.05), so honesty training significantly differed between the experimental and control groups in at least one of the emotional, psychological, rational, sexual, physical, spiritual, aesthetic, and social variables.
Conclusion: Based on the results of the study, it can be said that honesty training for couples can increase the overall intimacy of couples and at least one of the eight variables of marital intimacy. In explaining the strong motivation for honesty of truthful and honest people, it can be said that their tendency to be honest with others and their spouses is due to receiving a sense of trust and respect from each other and the balanced and healthy personality of honest people and benefiting themselves and people, caring, fairness, and their existential virtue, and fulfilling their responsibility, love, and friendship. The lack of significance of the spiritual, aesthetic, social, emotional, and rational intimacy variables can be explained by various reasons. A major factor in the appropriate expression of emotions, including intimacy, dates back to childhood, family, society, and culture. While many couples in different cultures and societies avoid publicly expressing aspects of intimacy with each other, and this is not taught in formal education in many educational centers, this may have had an impact on the current survey. On the other hand, teaching honesty in a few short sessions cannot change the personality of individuals that has been formed over many years. Another reason is that intimacy with a spouse requires spending time with each other and being together, and any time limit can reduce intimacy.
Methods: The present study was a content analysis of the hadiths of honesty and truthfulness to design an honesty training package and a pre-test, post-test, and analysis of covariance (descriptive and inferential statistics) method to measure the effect of honesty on marital intimacy. The statistical population consisted of 2000 members and permanent visitors of the marriage activists network in Ashkezar city in the period 2021-2022. The sample size was randomly selected from among the volunteers participating in the study and placed in two groups of 15 couples. The Bagaroozi (2001) marital intimacy questionnaire was used to collect data. The pre-test, post-test, and analysis of covariance methods were used to obtain results and analyze the data.
Results: The results of the study showed a significant increase in the effectiveness of honesty training in some of the eight dimensions of marital intimacy. The results of the multivariate analysis of covariance showed that the significance level of the group was 0.044 (P<0.05), so honesty training significantly differed between the experimental and control groups in at least one of the emotional, psychological, rational, sexual, physical, spiritual, aesthetic, and social variables.
Conclusion: Based on the results of the study, it can be said that honesty training for couples can increase the overall intimacy of couples and at least one of the eight variables of marital intimacy. In explaining the strong motivation for honesty of truthful and honest people, it can be said that their tendency to be honest with others and their spouses is due to receiving a sense of trust and respect from each other and the balanced and healthy personality of honest people and benefiting themselves and people, caring, fairness, and their existential virtue, and fulfilling their responsibility, love, and friendship. The lack of significance of the spiritual, aesthetic, social, emotional, and rational intimacy variables can be explained by various reasons. A major factor in the appropriate expression of emotions, including intimacy, dates back to childhood, family, society, and culture. While many couples in different cultures and societies avoid publicly expressing aspects of intimacy with each other, and this is not taught in formal education in many educational centers, this may have had an impact on the current survey. On the other hand, teaching honesty in a few short sessions cannot change the personality of individuals that has been formed over many years. Another reason is that intimacy with a spouse requires spending time with each other and being together, and any time limit can reduce intimacy.
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