ABSTRACT
Background and aim: One of the important aspects of human life is marriage and marital satisfaction. Marital satisfaction is a situation in which, couples have satisfaction and happy feeling of marriage and living together. The aim of this study was to evaluate the factors influencing marital satisfaction in the students of Islamic Azad University in Sanandaj.
Material and Method: This was a descriptive analytic study. The study population included 240 couples in this university who were selected by means of random sampling. The results of this study were collected by means of marital satisfaction inventory (M.S.I) and a researcher made questionnaire. Data analysis was performed by statistical regression test and variance analysis.
Results: The results of this study indicated that prediction of marital satisfaction by demographic variables (age, sex, education, occupation and number of off springs) is possible. Other results of this research indicated that with increasing age marital satisfaction decreases and there is a significant relation between marital years and factors such as attractiveness, rapport, attitude and spiritual matters with marital satisfaction.
Conclusion: Demographic variables can be used to predict marital satisfaction in university students.
Key words: marital satisfaction, demographic characteristics, university students.
Conflict of Interest: Nill
Received: Oct 31, 2009 Accepted: Feb 23, 2010
Shakerian A. Evaluation of the factors influencing marital satisfaction in the students of Islamic Azad Uiversity in Sanandaj. SJKU 2010; 14 (4) :40-49 URL: http://sjku.muk.ac.ir/article-1-274-en.html