The effectiveness of ontological education based on Giddens's theory on marital satisfaction and role conflict in prison staff

Subject Areas : social psychology

Morad Karandish ¹ , Ali Mahdad ² , Mohsen Golparvar ³

1 - PhD Student of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2021-08-03 Accepted : 2021-10-08 Published : 2021-11-22

Keywords: ontological education# marital satisfaction# role conflict#staff#prison,

Abstract :

Prisons staff are faced with many problems, especially in the field of declining marital satisfaction and increasing role conflict, and one of the educational methods to improve the psychological characteristics is ontological education. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of determine the effectiveness of ontological education based on Giddens's theory on marital satisfaction and role conflict in prison staff. This was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test and trimester follow-up with control group. The present study population was the staff of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province prisons in 2018 year. The sample of this study was 30 people of prisons staff who after reviewing the inclusion criteria were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly replaced in two equal groups. The experimental group underwent 10 sessions of 60 minutes (per week one session) ontological education based on Giddens's theory and the control group did not receive training. Both groups in addition to the demographic information form, responded to the short form of marital satisfaction questionnaire (Afrooz and Ghodrati, 2011) and role conflict subscale in the role conflict and ambiguity questionnaire (Rizzo, House and Lirtzman, 1970) in the pre-test, post-test, and follow-up stages. Data were analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance and Bonferroni post hoc test in SPSS-23 software. The findings showed that the ontological education method based on Giddens's theory led to increased marital satisfaction and decreased role conflict in prison staff and the results remained in the follow-up stage (P<0.05). According to the results of the present study, can be used ontological education method along with other educational methods to improve psychological characteristics, especially to increase marital satisfaction and decrease role conflict.

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