effectiveness of a sternberg-based empowerment program in reducing marital conflict among women

Background: in recent years, the growing divorce rate in iran has emerged as a pressing social issue, and one of the predictive factors in this regard is marital conflict. therefore, the present study aimed to design a women’s empowerment training program based on sternberg’s theory and evaluate its effect on reducing marital conflict.methods: this quasi-experimental study included 20 women with mild or moderate marital conflict, as determined by the marital conflict questionnaire (mcq). the study participants were evenly divided into two groups experimental (n=10) and control (n=10). the intervention included six 60-minute training sessions. data were collected using the marital conflict questionnaires and sternberg’s triangular love scale before and after the intervention. data were analyzed using spss version 23, employing independent t-test, and ancova. a significance level of less than 0.05 was considered.results: the mean score of marital conflict before the intervention was 71.49±22.80, which reduced to 65.04±45.08 after the intervention (p=0.050). similarly, the mean score of triangular love reduced from 316.08±55.14 to 285.30±92.57 (p=0.030). significant reductions were observed in intimacy (p=0.040) and commitment (p=0.030), while passion showed no significant changes.conclusions: the women’s empowerment training program, developed based on sternberg’s theory, had a positive effect on reducing marital conflict among women with mild or moderate marital conflict.