Relationship between the health of the main family and mindfulness with sacrificial behavior, Equity Perception and marital commitment in married female students in Ahvaz
Subject Areas : Woman and SocietySohaila Ostadabbasi 1 , Sahar Safarzadeh 2
1 - Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
2 - Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
Keywords: Commitment, mindfulness, equity, Family health, Sacrificial,
Abstract :
Introduction: The institution of the family is the place of growth and formation of human personality and has a lasting effect throughout human life, so the main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the main family's health and mindfulness with sacrificial behaviors, equity perception and marital commitment in married female students in Ahwaz.
Methods: The statistical population of this research included all married female students in Ahvaz city during the academic year of 2018-2019. Measurement tools included standardized questionnaires whose validity and reliability were confirmed. The reliability of family-of- origin health, mindfulness, sacrificial behaviors, equity perception and marital commitment based on Cronbach's alpha were 0.93, 0.89, 0.94. 0.70 and 0.85, respectively.
Results: The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the family's main health and sacrificial behaviors and marital commitment and there is no significant relationship with equity perception, Also, there is a significant relationship between mindfulness with sacrificial behaviors and marital commitment and there is no meaningful relationship with equity perception. It has been shown that in the first set, the family's primary health is strongly correlated with the first canonical variable(0.991). Therefore, it seems that the first conical variable more reflects the health of the original family. In the second set, sacrificial behaviors have the highest correlation with the first canonical variable(0.663).
Conclusion: Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that a person with more family health has more sacrificial behaviors.
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