Predicting marital adjustment based on components of psychological health and self-compassion in Buchanan couples

Subject Areas : Woman and family

Shahla  Ahmadi ¹ (PhD Student, Department of Counseling, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran)
Omid  Moradi ² (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran)

Received: 2019-09-19 Accepted : 2018-11-03 Published : 2018-11-22

Keywords: psychological health, : Marital compatibility, Self-compassion and couples,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to predict marital adjustment based on the components of psychological health and self-compassion in couples in Buchan. The research is correlational. The statistical population of the study includes reference pairsTo the counseling centers of Buchan city in the first three months of 1397, which is equal to 200 people. In this study, based on Morgan table, the sample size was n = 118, which was determined using a simple random sampling method.

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