The Comparison of Marital Satisfaction between Mono and Dual Career Couples with the Consideration of Their General Health
Subject Areas : Woman and family
Keywords: marital satisfaction, Mono career couples, Dual career couples, Working women.,
Abstract :
Nowadays because of the changes in social and economic conditions, the number of working women has dramatically increased. Employment of married women influences the quality of the relationship between the couples, their rearing styles and different aspects of their lives. Thus, in this study, we have compared marital satisfaction of mono career couples with dual career couples with the consideration of their general health .The method of this study was comparative and ex post facto, which was done on two groups- 40 dual career couples and 40 mono career couples. They were selected by random cluster sampling from among the inhabitants of Damghan city. The selected couples had been married for at least 2 years and had children. Marital satisfaction Questionnaire and General Health Questionnaire were used for collecting data. Two-way analysis of covariance test and one-way analysis of covariance(ANCOVA) were used to analyze data.General health (as covariate)was found to have a significant effect on marital satisfaction (P<0.001). In dual career couples, marital satisfaction of women was more than their husbands. Furthermore, working women in comparison with non-working women had more marital satisfaction. In mono career couples, there was no difference between marital satisfaction of men and their wives. Marital satisfaction in men who had non-working wives was more than men who had working wives.Many factors are effective on marital satisfaction. Employment of women is one of them that can increase the marital satisfaction if both wives and husbands observe some principles and conditions.
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