Relationship Between Forgiveness and Perfectionism with Marital Satisfaction in Wives of Injured Veterans in Ahvaz City

Subject Areas : Sport Management

پروین Ehteshamzadeh ¹ , بهنام Makvandi ² , اشرف Bagheri ³

1 - Assistant Professor of Psychology in Islamic Azad University
2 - Assistant Professor of Ahvaz Islamic Azad University Research&Science Center (Khouzestan Branch)
3 - M. A. graduated of Ahvaz Islamic Azad University in Psychology

Received: 2010-05-20 Accepted : 2010-06-22 Published : 2009-12-22

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Abstract :

The purpose of present study was investigating the relationship between forgiveness and perfectionism with marital satisfaction in wives of injured veterans in Ahvaz city. Participants were 300 wives of injured veterans which selected through cluster random sampling in 1389. Family Forgiveness Questionnaire, Ahvaz Perfectionism Scale and Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire were used for collecting data. This study was a correlation research and results indicated that there were significant positive correlation between forgiveness and marital satisfaction (r= 0. 523). Also there was negative correlation between perfectionism and marital satisfaction (r= -0. 278). Finding suggested that there were multicorrelations between variables and forgiveness was the most significant predictive variable for marital satisfaction. The significant level in this study was p<0. 05.