Effectiveness of nonviolent communication (NVC) workshop on marital adjustment

Abstract

The present study examined the effectiveness of nonviolent communication
(NVC) workshop on marital adjustment. The hypothesis was receiving
nonviolent communication (NVC) workshop has positive impact on marital
adjustment. The independent variable was NVC workshop and the dependent
variable was marital adjustment score. For conducting this research, repeated
measures design was followed and 20 Bangladeshi married people participated
in it. The results have shown that there was a statistically significant difference
(F = 16.790, p < 0.05) in marital adjustment score of experimental group over the
three time periods and pairwise comparisons indicate that there was significant
difference between pretest and post‐test and also between pretest and follow‐ up
test at the 0.05 level. Results also have shown that, there was statistically
significant difference of marital adjustment score between experimental and
control group in posttest (t = 4.276, p < 0.05) and follow‐up test (t = 4.176,
p < 0.05). Thus, after receiving NVC workshop the marital adjustment score of
experimental group increased significantly (F = 16.79, p < 0.001) in post‐test
measure and also remain constant in follow‐up, whereas the marital adjustment
score of control group had no significant change. This implied a significant
positive impact of participation in NVC workshop on marital adjustment.