the effectiveness of teaching personality skills of couples with oppositional defiant disorder on the quality of communication between couples

Background: the aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of personality skills training in couples with oppositional defiant disorder on the quality of communication between couples.methods: the method of this study was descriptive and causal-comparative. the statistical population consisted of all couples with oppositional defiant disorder in yazd. sampling was done so that 49 couples with oppositional defiant disorder were selected by cluster random sampling and diagnostic interview based on dsm-iv-tr criteria. the sampling method in this study was multi-stage cluster sampling, so that in the first stage, three regions were randomly selected from yazd city, then one region and several families from each selected area were selected and then the questionnaire was completed separately by couples, after scoring the questionnaire, a person with symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder, selected. the scoring of this questionnaire is likert 4-degree scale, in this study descriptive statistics indicators such as mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics to test the hypotheses, in fact, to compare the personality traits of couples with oppositional defiant disorder, multivariate variance analysis (manova) was used. the results of this study were analyzed using spss16 statistical software.results: the results showed that there was a significant difference between the subscale of neuroticism personality traits of couples with oppositional defiant disorder and normal couples, and the mean scores of couples in the subscale of neuroticism in the psychotic disorder group were higher than the normal group.conclusion: it can be concluded that couples with oppositional defiant disorder are more psychotic than normal couples.