Predicting the marital burnout based on perceived social support and use of virtual network in married women

Subject Areas : social psychology

Shadi Zolfaghari ¹

1 - MA of Psychometric, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-05-12 Accepted : 2019-09-05 Published : 2019-09-23

Keywords: married women, virtual network, perceived social support, marital burnout,

Abstract :

The aim of this research was predicting the marital burnout based on perceived social support and use of virtual network in married women. Present study was cross-sectional from correlation type. The research population was married women referring to Tehran neighborhood in spring and summer sessions of 2019 year. The research sample was 180 people who were selected by multistage cluster random sampling method. Data collected by the questionnaires of marital burnout (Pines, 1996), perceived social support (Zimet & et al, 1988) and use of virtual network (Young, 1998) and analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple Regression methods in SPSS-18. The findings showed that the support of family, friends and others has a significant negative relationship with marital burnout of married women and the use of virtual network has a significant positive relationship with their marital burnout. Also, the variables of support of family, friends and others and use of virtual network significantly could predict 46% of variance of marital burnout of married women (P<0/05). Regarded to the results it is suggested that with necessary training to reduce the marital burnout of married women increase their social support and decrease their use of virtual network.