Effectiveness of a communication enhancement seminar for urban married individuals

• Main Author: Butalid, Mary Grace
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1982
• Subjects: Communication in marriage; Married people; Communication
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/880
• Institution: De La Salle University

The present study is an attempt to gauge the effectiveness of the group intervention among married individuals. The goal is to lessen some communication difficulties among married individuals. Because of the increasing difficulties in communication among married couples and because of the need for appropriate communication in order to improve their relationship, it seems important that means to attain these must be found. It is with this belief that the writer had decided to embark on conducting an experimental study on a group intervention for the improvement of communication in married life. Volunteer married individuals were randomly selected for the experiment and an experimental group of 12 members, plus a control group of 12 members, were formed by a random assignment of the sample group. Campbell's pretest-posttest control group design was employed in this study. The subjects of the experimental group participated in the Communication Enhancement Seminar (CES) for two consecutive Sundays in six sessions for 1 and 1/2 hours each. A follow-up interview was done two weeks after the posttest. Analysis of Covariance was utilized to process the data from the experiment, in order to determine the significance of the results. The findings showed that the experimental group had a slight increase both in the openness and the listening scales of the questionnaire on Communication Skills (QCS). These slight changes though not significant at the 0.05 level pointed to the area of intended change. An important finding of the study was that the intervention really helped the experimental group in having better communication which resulted in happier relationships between husband and wife of the three couple participants. It can be concluded that although the CES group intervention did not effect measurable changes in the variables under study, namely openness and listening skills of the participants as measured by the QCS, the married individuals who participated reported having benefited in other areas of growth in thei