Abstract：
Marital burnout has not been extensively studied despite its huge consequences on family wellbeing and quality of family life. This study, using randomised-controlled trial, tested the impact of rational-emotive couple intervention on marital burnout in a sample of parents seeking a divorce. A total of 67 parents who participated during the rational-emotive couple intervention (RECI) were assessed using the marital burnout scale, Beck depression inventory, and parent rational and irrational beliefs scale. Crosstabulation, multivariate test analysis, and bivariate analysis were used to analyse the data collected. Results show a significant reduction of marital burnout in RECI group participants, and significant improvement was maintained at the follow-up stage. The result of the group and gender interaction effect shows no significant interaction effect of group and gender on participants\' marital burnout at Time two and Time 3, respectively. The results indicate that a decrease in parents\' irrational beliefs accounts for marital burnout among couples seeking a divorce. Marital burnout is positively associated with depression among couples seeking a divorce. This study concludes that the RECI is an effective intervention that reduces marital burnout which is a direct consequence of irrational beliefs which later metamorphose into depressive symptoms.
摘要：
尽管婚姻倦怠对家庭幸福和家庭生活质量产生了巨大影响，但尚未对其进行广泛研究。这项研究,使用随机对照试验，在寻求离婚的父母样本中测试了理性情绪夫妻干预对婚姻倦怠的影响。使用婚姻倦怠量表对参与理性情感夫妻干预（RECI）的67位父母进行了评估，贝克抑郁症库存，和父母理性和非理性信念量表。交叉，多变量测试分析，和双变量分析用于分析收集的数据。结果显示RECI组参与者的婚姻倦怠显着降低，随访阶段仍有显著改善。群体和性别交互效应的结果表明，群体和性别对参与者婚姻倦怠的交互效应分别在时间2和时间3没有显著的影响。结果表明，父母非理性信念的减少是寻求离婚的夫妻婚姻倦怠的原因。在寻求离婚的夫妇中，婚姻倦怠与抑郁呈正相关。这项研究得出的结论是，RECI是一种有效的干预措施，可以减少婚姻倦怠，这是非理性信念的直接结果，这种信念后来演变成抑郁症状。
