Document Type : Research Paper
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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran
Abstract
The main family and the quality of the couple's relationship with it is one of the factors that, according to clinical reports, plays a decisive role in creating and fueling marital conflicts. The purpose of this research was to investigate and classify information based on the couples' lived experience of the consequences of the main families' involvement in their joint lives and to classify the strategies used by couples in these interventions. The study method was qualitative and phenomenological. The sample was 13 couples from the city of Kerman, who were selected with a purposeful method. Then, semi-structured interviews were conducted with them, and the information was analyzed by Colaizzi method. The results of the analysis of the interviews showed that the consequences of interventions included two categories of personal consequences and interpersonal consequences. And the strategies used by couples in managing these interferences include three categories of individual strategies with the sub-themes of self-expression, passive dealing with interferences, adopting an indirect approach; couple strategies with the sub-themes of harmony and unity with the spouse, increasing intimacy with the aim of creating unity; And the communication strategies with the family were with the sub-themes of boundary building, family acceptance and reframing of interventions. It seems that the results of this research can help counselors and psychologists in counseling centers and quasi-family centers and educational institutions to have a more realistic analysis of the involvement of the main families in the married life of couples.
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