Predicting marital adjustment based on marital expectations with mediate role of marital conflicts

Subject Areas : social psychology

Simin Omrani ¹ , Farhad Jomehri ² , Hasan Ahadi ³

1 - PhD Student of General Psychology, Department of Psychology, Research and Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor Department of Psychology, Research and Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Professor Department of Psychology, Research and Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-11-21 Accepted : 2019-06-17 Published : 2019-08-23

Keywords: marital conflicts, married students, marital adjustment, marital expectations,

Abstract :

Present research aimed to predicting marital adjustment based on marital expectations with mediate role of marital conflicts. The research population was married students of Islamic Azad University of Tehran Branches in 2018-19 academic years. The research sample was 400 people (200 men and 200 women) that were selected by multistep cluster sampling method. Data collection tools consisted of the questionnaires of marital adjustment (Spanier, 1976), marital expectations (Bahrami Ehsan and et al, 2010) and marital conflicts (Sanaei, 2008). The data were analyzed by structural equation modeling method with using of LISREL software. The findings showed that the fit of model was suitable and marital expectations on marital conflicts and marital adjustment and marital conflicts and marital adjustment of married students has a direct and significant effect. Also marital expectations with mediate the marital conflicts on marital adjustment of married students has an indirect and significant effect (P