@2024 Afarand., IRAN
ISSN: 2008-2630 Iranian Journal of War & Public Health 2015;7(2):99-105
ISSN: 2008-2630 Iranian Journal of War & Public Health 2015;7(2):99-105
Role of Sexual Satisfaction, Spiritual Health, Psychological Distress and Self- Esteem in Marital Commitment of Women’s with Veteran Husbands
ARTICLE INFO
Article Type
Original ResearchAuthors
Showani E. (* )Zahrakar K. (1 )
Ghasemi Jobaneh R. (1 )
Dargahi Sh. (1 )
(* ) Counseling Department, Psychology & Educational Sciences Faculty, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
(1 ) Counseling Department, Psychology & Educational Sciences Faculty, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
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Address: Faculty of Psychology & Educational Sciences, Kharazmi University, Hesarak, Karaj, IranPhone: +981333841613
Fax: +981333841613
s.showani@yahoo.com
Article History
Received: January 23, 2015Accepted: April 6, 2015
ePublished: April 2, 2015
BRIEF TEXT
… [1, 2] Veterans strongly need the support, care and compassion of their spouses and perhaps incompatibility and lack of consultation and cooperation with their partner exacerbate their problems [3]. In fact, accompanying of the wife with the veteran and her commitment to family life could make these stressful conditions easier. Satisfactory marital commitment has been recognized as an important element of a healthy marriage [4] and committed people make a long-term perspective to their marriage [5]. … [6, 7]
One of the variables that can influence the quality of married life and following that marital commitment is sexual satisfaction [8-10]. … [11, 12] Spiritual and psychological health and self-esteem are, also, important factors affecting the quality of married life [13-15].
This study aimed to investigate the role of sexual satisfaction, spiritual satisfaction, psychological distress and self-esteem in marital commitment of the veterans’ wives.
This is a correlation study.
Veterans’ wives in the city of Piranshahr (Urmia province, Iran) were studied in summer 2014.
120 veterans’ wives were selected by available sampling method.
The veterans’ wives were met in association with Piranshahr Office of Martyr Foundation. And the questionnaire of research was distributed among them to be replied within 20 minutes. In addition, ensuring the confidentiality of information and psychological preparing of the subjects in the research were of the ethical issues observed in this research. In order to collect the required data, marital commitment, depression, anxiety, and stress scale (DASS-21 scale), Rosenberg scale of self-esteem and the questionnaire of sexual satisfaction were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS 18 software, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Stepwise Regression.
120 veterans’ wives (average age 48.15± 3.15years) participated in the research. 78 patients (65%) were under diploma, 31 patients (26%) had high school diploma and 11 subjects (9%) were over the high school diploma. The relationship between marital commitment and spiritual health, sexual satisfaction and self-esteem, was positive and significant showing that an increase in the variables led to an increase in marital commitment. Also, there was a significant negative relationship between psychological distress and marital commitment showing that an increase in psychological distress reduced the marital commitment (Table 1). Based on Stepwise Regression, self-esteem had significant correlation with marital commitment, and was the first step in the model. In the later stages, spiritual health, sexual satisfaction and psychological distress entered the model, respectively. Impact of self-esteem, mental health and sexual satisfaction were 1.28, 0.46 and 0.56, respectively. And they predicted marital commitment as positive. Also, the impact of psychological distress was -0.46 that predicted marital commitment as negative. Predictor variables significantly predicted 37% of the variance of marital commitment.
There was a significant correlation between sexual satisfaction and marital commitment. The result is consistent with the results of other studies [8-10]. There was a significant positive correlation between spiritual health and marital commitment. As an important component of the quality of married life, spirituality plays a positive and important role to increase the marital commitment [13-15]. The results are consistent with the results of this research. … [16-18]There was a significant negative correlation between psychological distress and marital commitment. The less the psychological distress suffer, the more committed to the partners was. The result is in accordance with the results of other studies [19-23]. … [24] There was a significant positive correlation between self-esteem and marital commitment which is in line with the results of other studies [25, 26]. … [27-40]
Similar studies should be done in other communities. In order to compare men and women in marital commitment, and similar variables, comparative studies should be done.
Generalization of the results should be done with caution.
Sexual satisfaction, spiritual health, mental health and self-esteem lead to marital commitment and the stability of marriage life in veterans’ wives.
The researchers appreciate all participating veterans’ wives.
Non-declared
Ensuring the confidentiality of information and psychological preparation of the subjects were of the ethical issues observed in this study.
This research is funded by the authors.
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