بررسي رابطه بين تقيدات مذهبي و سازگاري زناشويي

The Relation between Religiosity and Marital Adjustment

The following research intends to investigate the role of religiosity in marital adjustment. Religious beliefs and practices have heen suggested to have direct impact on family relationships, and empowering of religious values might be a main goal for improvement of marital life. Method: In this research, 1320 subjects (660 couples) from Tehran, were selected through a multistage cluster sampling. In this method. information regarding religiosity and marital adjustment was collected using a questionnaire prepared hy researchers, and Enrichʹsʹ marital satisfaction scale. The results showed that couples with higher religious beliefs may have higher rate of marital adjustment, based on a significant correlation 01ʹ0.29 between religiosity and marital adjustment. Regarding the relation between religiosity and the nine subseales of marital adjustment, communication, parenting and religious orientation accounted for the highest rate ((U6) of variance and sexual relationship accounted for the lowest rate (0.\7) of variance. It might be concluded that an increase of reiigiosity may result in an improved marital adjustment.