Prediction of marital conflict through the personality,psychological and demographic characteristics of spouses

Subject Areas : Educational

سمیه شاهمرادی ¹ (دانشگاه اصفهان)
مریم فاتحی زاده ² (دانشگاه اصفهان)
احمد احمدی ³ (دانشگاه اصفهان)

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2017-10-17

Keywords: Demographic characteristics, Marital conflict, psychological characteristics, personality characteristics,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research was to predict marital conflicts (of divorce prone and normal couples) through personality, psychological and demographic characteristics. Method of research was correlation and ex-post facto one and the statistical population was divorce prone and normal couples. For normal and divorce prone couples, each one included 60 persons, who were selected by two- stage cluster sampling method. The assessment tools included a Big-Five-Factor Personality Questionnaire (Costa & McCrae, 1989), the Symptom Check-List-90 (SCL-90) (Derogatis et. al., 1973) and a Demographic Questionnaire (made by researcher). The data were analyzed using independent sample t-test and stepwise regression analysis (logistic). The results showed that divorce prone and normal couples were significantly different in terms of neuroticism, openness to experience and conscientiousness and all nine subscales of SCL-90 (P < 0/05). From all of the personality, psychological and demographic variables, neuroticism, depression, paranoid thoughts, number of children, type of marriage and income could significantly predict marital conflict. Prediction of marital conflict