Predicting Marital Happiness Based on self-compassion and Flourishing in Married women

Subject Areas : Educational

زهرا شفیعی ¹ , Rezvavsadat Jazayeri ²

1 - دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه اصفهان ،ایران
2 - Academic member, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2016-11-27 Accepted : 2017-04-30 Published : 2017-11-22

Keywords: married women, flourishing, self- compassion, Marital Happiness,

Abstract :

In this study the role of self-compassion and flourishing as predictors for marital happiness was investigated. For this purpose, 140 married women Isfahan city were selected by available sampling method and and Marital Happiness Scale (Tgryan, 1387), Self-Compassion (Neff, 2003) and Flourishing (Diener, 2009) responded. Data was analyzed by using multiple regression analysis Results showed that flourishing and self- compassion were capable of predicting the Marital happiness but among the six subscales of self-compassion (self- kindness, self–judgment, common humanity, mindfulness, isolation and over-identification) only variable mindfulness predicted marital happiness. As a result can marital happiness married women based on personality traits (self- compassion and flourishing) they explained (p <0.001).

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