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ISSN: 2252-0805    The Horizon of Medical Sciences 2019;25(1):50-56

Background
Marriage and family formation are unique features of mankind that can play an important role in personal growth and enrichment of couples [1]. However, the family can have a positive impact on the individual, family members and the community if the couple have marital adjustment and satisfaction [2].
Previous Studies
... [3-10]. Granross et al. [11] argue that when a person is faced with anxiety events, social support moderates the destructive impact of that event on one's health and makes the person less likely to assess the problem. Other studies have shown that physiological responses to stress are affected by social support [12]. Greenhouse and Biotlel [13] have suggested that social support in the relationship between family-labor conflict and its negative consequences on mental health and social relationships is moderating. Previous studies merely examined the relationship between social support and work-family conflict [8, 14], the study of the relationship between work-family conflict and marital adjustment [15-17], or the study of the relationship between social support and marital satisfaction [18].
Aim(s)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of social protection moderation in the relationship between work-family conflict and marital adjustment of married woman nurses.
Research type
This research is a correlation study.
Research society, place and time
The population of this study included all married woman nurses working in three educational hospitals in Bojnourd, Imam Ali Hospital, Imam Reza Hospital and Bent Al Hoda Hospital.
Sampling method and number
... [19]. 181 patients were selected using the Kerjesy & Morgan table [20] and classified as a sample by stratified random sampling method. According to the probability of falling of samples, 270 questionnaires were distributed among nurses and 200 final questionnaires were analyzed. The entry criteria were having bachelor’s degree and higher, passing at least one year of marriage and having at least one year of work experience.
Used devices&materials
The researcher was introduced to the mentioned hospitals after receiving the referral from the university and referring to the department of treatment of North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences and introducing and expressing the purpose of the research and getting the support and cooperation necessary from the authorities. Subsequently, by providing the necessary explanations to the nurses and ensuring confidentiality of the information, the questionnaires were distributed to each hospital and distributed among the nurses of the same hospital by random sampling, and after a certain period of time. In the present study, the following tools were used to collect data: Family-Work Conflict Scale: This scale is made by Netmir et al. [21] and has 10 items (each subscale has 5 items). Responses are presented in a seven-degree Likert scale range from 1 (completely disagree) to 7 (fully agree). In Iran, Golparvar et al. [22] estimated the reliability of this scale using the Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the subscales of conflict of family work and conflict of work family as 0.89 and 0.90 respectively. In this study, reliability of the questionnaire was 0.88 using Cronbach's alpha. For the subscales of conflict of the family work and conflict of the work family as 0.89 and 0.88 respectively. Dyadic Adjustment Scale: This scale is made up by Spenier, and has 32 items that include four subscales (couples' consensus, couples' satisfaction, couples' cohesion, and affection). Sanai [24] examined the content validity of this scale and showed that this questionnaire was well able to distinguish between married and divorced couples. In this study, the reliability of the questionnaire was 0.89 using Cronbach's alpha. Social Support Scale: This questionnaire was developed by Wax et al. [25]. It has 23 questions and measures three areas of social support from the family (8 items), friends (7 items), and others (8 items). Scoring of this test is as Likert for option (I completely disagree to 4 completely agree). Moradi and Charaghi [26] in their research achieved the reliability of this scale using the Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.73. In the present study, reliability of this scale was obtained using Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the whole scale which was 0.85. Data were analyzed using SPSS 22and Pearson correlation coefficient and moderated regression analysis.
Findings by Text
The study group included 270 married women nurses who completed the questionnaires, but due to lack of cooperation from some of them and defect in some questionnaires, 200 questionnaires were collected and analyzed. The reversibility rate is 74%). The mean and standard deviation of the age of the subjects, the age of the spouse, the duration of marriage, and the working experience were 29.96 ± 6.00, 40.5 ± 6.55, 7.14 ± 5.58 and 5.31± 4.86 years respectively. Some other characteristics of the sample are presented in Table 1. Pearson correlation coefficient between conflict of family work and conflict of work family with marital adjustment of nurses was negative and significant. Also, Pearson correlation coefficient between social support and marital adjustment of nurses was positive and significant (Table 2). As it is seen in Table 3, in the first rank, in order to control the variables that affect the criterion variable, the variables of age, marriage duration and work history were entered into regression analysis and then the main variables were analyzed. Also, regarding the role of the moderator of the work family, first, after entering control variables at first rank, in the second rank, the conflict of the work family was entered into a regression analysis. The results showed that the conflict of the work family explained 18% of the variance of marital adjustment. The slope of the regression lines related to the relationship between work-family conflict and marital adjustment was not equal in employees with low and high social support (the lower slope of lower social support indicated a more negative relationship between work-family conflict and marital adjustment; Figure 1).
Main comparison to the similar studies
The results showed that there was a significant negative relationship between work-family conflict and marital adjustment. This means that as the work-family conflict increases, marital adjustment decreases. These results were consistent with many research findings [5-28]. The findings showed that there was a significant positive correlation between perceived social support and marital adjustment. This finding was in line with the results of some studies, including Sahraian et al. [14], Aikan and Azkin [28], Ghadir et al. [29] and Stephen et al. [30]. Also, findings from interactive hypotheses showed that social support corrected the relationship between work-family conflict and marital adjustment, which was consistent with the results of the Arami research [19]. ... [31, 32].
Suggestions
The organization of workshops on the management of work-family conflicts for married nurses is recommended.
Limitations
This research has been done only on married women nurses in government hospitals in Bojnourd. Therefore, generalization of the results of this research to other organizations, both similar and non-similar, should be followed by caution.
Conclusions
In married woman nurses, having social support from family, friends and others can reduce the impact of family-work conflict on their marital adjustment.
Acknowledgments
This article is based on the master's thesis of guidance and counseling at the University of Bojnourd. The authors of this article appreciate all those who have contributed to the research with the researchers.
Conflict of interest
No conflict of interest has been reported by the authors of the research.
Ethical Permissions
At all stages of this research, ethical considerations such as the moral principle of scientific trustee, the intellectual right of the authors of works, secrecy and informed consent are observed. This research has also been approved by the Council of Education, Research and Graduate Studies at Bojnourd University with code 13110442664.
Funding Sources
This research is the result of an author's research work and its personal finances.

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