The role of marital virtue components in predicting ‎happiness and marital satisfaction of married men and women in ‎Tehran City

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Associate Professor of psychology, Department of Psychology, Research Institute of Women, Alzahra University

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The current research was administrated with the aim of investigating the role of marital ‎virtues to predict happiness and marital satisfaction of married men and women in ‎Tehran. Descriptive and correlational research strategy is used to collect and analyze ‎data. So, 154 married women and 144 married men were selected through convenient ‎sampling from south, north, center, east, and west of Tehran City. The participants ‎completed the researcher-made marital virtues scale, the short form of happiness scale, ‎and the Hendrik relation assessment scale. Data were analyzed using correlation and ‎stepwise regression test. The results showed significant correlation between all marital ‎sub-virtues with happiness and marital satisfaction in married women and men. Also, the ‎results showed two sub-virtues including fairness and honesty have the greatest ‎contribution in predicting marital satisfaction and honesty and appreciation have the ‎important role in prediction of happiness in married women and men. Having positive ‎personality traits and cultivating moral virtues is important predictor of marital ‎satisfaction and happiness in couples.‎

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Women's Studies Sociological and Psychological
Volume 16, Issue 3 - Serial Number 56
October 2018
Pages 159-179

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