Predicting the quality of the relationship with the spouse family based on marital intimacy and main family health
Subject Areas : EducationalNafiseh Mostafaei 1 , Javad Khodadadi 2 , Shahriar Dargahi 3 , Dariush Azimi 4
1 - Master of Family Counseling, Islamic Azad University, Tehran South Branch
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Counseling Department, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Mohaghegh Ardebili University.
4 - Counseling Department, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Mohaghegh Ardebili University.
Keywords: main family health, married women and men, Marital Intimacy, relationship quality with family,
Abstract :
The necessity of identifying the factors affecting the quality of the relationship with the spouse's family has always been of interest to the family's specialists. The present study was designed to predict the role of quality of relationship based on marital intimacy and main family health. This research was a descriptive-correlational study. The study population consisted of married women and men in Tehran during the period of 2016-17, 250 of them were selected by sampling method. Data were collected using Marital Intimacy questionnaire (Walker & Thompson, 1983) The Health of The Main Family (Yeshtat and others, 1985), the Relationship With The Wife's Family (Cheraghi, 1393), were collected. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and inter regression analysis. The results of Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the family's main health and marital intimacy with the quality of the relationship with the spouse's family(P<0/01). Also, the results of regression analysis showed that marital intimacy and family health can explain 26% of the quality of the relationship with the spouse's family. in forming the quality of the relationship with the spouse's family, marital intimacy, and the family's primary health, plays a very important role. Therefore, the need for more attention to these factors in the consolidation of the family is fundamental.
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