The effect of intimacy training on enhancement of relationship intimacy in couples

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of intimacy training on relationship-intimacy in married employees of Ahvaz Oil Company. Participants were 36 couples who were selected randomly from among those employees who agreed to take part in the study. They were then randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The design of the study was a pretest-posttest control group type. The Intimacy Needs Survey scale was used in order to investigate different aspects of intimacy. MANOVA and ANOVA were used to analyse the data. The results showed that emotional intimacy, psychological intimacy, intellectual intimacy, sexual intimacy, physical intimacy, spiritual intimacy, aesthetic intimacy and social-recreational intimacy were enhanced by the intimacy training project.