Fateme Baharloo - MA in General Psychology, Bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran
Mehdi Ghasemi Motlagh - Faculty member of General Psychology, Bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran

The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of angermanagement training on marital satisfaction of spouse of addictedpatients in addiction treatment centers in Bojnourd. The presentexperiment is a pretest and posttest with control group kind. Forselecting the needed samples, available sampling method was used. 30spouses of addicted people who were ready to cooperate andparticipate in educational sessions were chosen and randomlyassigned in experimental and control groups. Anger management skillswere taught to experimental group during 10 sessions of 90 minutes.Using questionnaire of marital satisfaction (Olson, Fournier &Druckman, 1987) data was collected at pretest and posttest andcovariance analysis were used to test the research hypothesis. Resultsindicated that training of anger management skills can significantlyimpact on increase marital satisfaction (P<0.01). The results of thestudy provide some evidence to suggest that training angermanagement skills is an appropriate method for increasing maritalsatisfaction. Anger management skills training help women probablyby reinforcement of the behavior skills of regulation change and createdesirable emotions and control their violence.

Addiction, Anger management, Marital satisfaction