The relationship between marital adjustment and relationship standards
Subject Areas : روان درمانگریHoda Barazandeh 1 , Ali Sahebi 2 , Amir Aminyazdi 3 , Behrooz Mahram 4
1 - M. A. in Clinical Psychology
2 - PhD
Ferdosi University
Sydney University
3 - PhD Ferdosi University
4 - PhD
Ferdosi University
Keywords: investment, martial adjustment, relationship standards, boundaries, Power,
Abstract :
This research studied the relationship between marital adjustment and relationship standards (i.e., beliefs about how the relationship between two spouses should Mashad district completed Baucom and Epstein’s Inventory of Specific Relationship Standards (ISRS) and the Spanier’s Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS). The correlation between the relationship-focused standards in the three major dimensions of marital functioning (boundaries, power, and investment), and marital adjustment was significant. Also, satisfaction from meeting relationship standards was significantly related to marital adjustment. The results suggested no significant correlation between emotional responses to unmet standards and marital adjustment. The relationship standards pre- sults of the stepwise regression technique showed that the expressive investment was the only standard that significantly variance of marital adjustment. Differences between spouse’s standards also were related to marital adjustment.
