The Study of Marital Adjustment in Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Sepah) Staff

Document Type : Original Research

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Aims. Happiness and satisfaction in any marriage requires that both wife and husband try for it. Marriage compatibility will of course influence the couple’s psychological health, life satisfaction and even the rate of income, educational success and job satisfaction. On the other hand marriage incompatibility can result in social relationships disorder, tendency to social deviations and decline of cultural value in husband and wife. According to what is described above, the aim of this study is assessment of marital adjustment and marriage compatibility. Methods. The research method was descriptive and in this 900 couple of staff and theirs spouse were chosen in there using multi-phase cluster method in 2003. The utilized tool for collection of data is ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire.Results. The result of the research showed that 10.2 percent of husbands and 19.7 percent of wife’s involved marital maladjustment, 51.4 percent of husbands and 49.7 percent of wife’s occasionally involved non-satisfaction. The most prevalence of maladjustment dimensions was conflict resolution and sexual relationship.Conclusion. The ability of conflict resolution and increase of sexual relation require having skills on above dimensions. These skills are educable and trainable. By increase of couple ability on conflict resolution and sexual relation, they’re marital satisfaction have be increasing. 

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