For improving Christian couples' healthy marital relationships, the purpose of this dissertation is to develop bibliotherapy program which is applied by David H. Olson's ENRICH scales, that is, the level of marital satisfaction, personal traits, communication, conflict resolution, financial management, leisure activities, sexual relationships, parenting styles, relatives and friends, role model, religious maturity, family intimacy and flexibility and verify its effectiveness which bibliotherapy program has affect on the dependent variables of healthy marital improvement. The researcher sets up research hypothesis in order to carry out such purpose, that is, experiment group in which bibliotherapy program is operated will show meaningful differences in ENRICH scale variables than control group in which bibliotherapy program is not operated. In order to examine the result of research hypothesis, he exerts group bibliotherapy program.
From two churches in Kyongki-do P city and Incheon G gu, he selects fourteen Christian couples which are age group from thirties to fifties and divides control group and experiment group randomly. From February 1, 2009 to May 24, 2009, he enforces fourteen sessions of programs in a way that the participants read their books and write their book reviews every week. In order to compare the differences between control group and experiment group after
applying this program, he enforces the tests concerning to twelve variables and carries out verification and ANCOVA through SAS 12.0 K. The results which are found from this research are as follows. First, it is appeared that the experiment group which participates this program shows meaning variables than control group which does not participate it. Second, application of this program on adult couples aged from thirties to fifties is positive. Third, the difference between pre-test and post-test which are applied to experiment group is appeared to be meaningful. From the result of the difference analysis about twelve variables, experiment group has meaningful difference statistically between pre-test and post-test since all p-values of twelve factors are larger than .05. In discussion and conclusion, from the result of the difference analysis about twelve variables between experiment group and control group,
experiment group has meaningful difference in improving healthy marital relationships than control group since all p-values are larger than .05. Namely it is appeared that experiment group which participate this program has the effectiveness in enhancing healthy marital relationships than control group which does not participate it. From the above result it is verified that it makes positive influence similar to this when Olson's twelve variables for enhancing marital relationships are applied to bibliotherapy program.