Applying the Ethics of Servitude in Enhancing Marital Satisfaction and Family Efficiency

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Faculty of Theology and Family Research Institute

10.22081/jare.2025.71420.2027

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The ethics of servitude is a type of ethics that deals with the way humans relate to God and talks about the moral dos and don'ts that a human being must observe in his relationship with God. One of the examples of the ethics of servitude in the cognitive dimension is a positive and correct idea and perception of God. People who have a positive and correct idea and perception of God benefit from positive effects in their lives. One of the uses and effects of the ethics of servitude in the field of a positive idea and perception of God is to strengthen marital satisfaction and family efficiency. To prove this claim, the ethics of servitude training course was defined and its effectiveness on strengthening marital satisfaction and family efficiency was measured. For this purpose, after developing the ethics of servitude training program, this program was validated using qualitative research and then measured using a semi-experimental research method on two variables: marital satisfaction and family efficiency. The statistical population was married people in Isfahan city, and 25 married people were randomly assigned to two groups, control and experimental, using a convenient and voluntary sampling method. The results showed that at the p<0.05 level, the mean scores of the experimental group in the two variables of family efficiency and marital satisfaction were significantly higher than the mean scores of the control group. Therefore, the results indicate a significant effect of the servitude ethics training program on the research variables.

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  • Receive Date: 18 March 2025
  • Revise Date: 23 March 2025
  • Accept Date: 25 March 2025

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