Comparing Marital Conflicts between Spouses Raised in Small and Large Families

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.

2 M.A. Student in Psychology, Payam Nour University of Tehran, Eslamshahr Branch, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Objective: The present research was conducted to compare the level of marital conflicts between spouses raised in small-population (fewer children) and large-population (more children) families.
Method: This study was conducted using a non-experimental quantitative causal-comparative method. The population included student couples living in residential complexes in Qom, of whom 626 (313 couples) were selected by the cluster sampling and responded to demographic and marital conflict questionnaires by Sanaei et al. (2008).
Results: The findings showed that there is a statistically significant difference between marital conflicts between spouses raised in small-population families and those raised in large-population families; that is, spouses who were from large-population families had fewer marital conflicts than spouses who were from small-population and small-population families.
Conclusions: In analyzing and explaining the factors of marital conflicts and planning to prevent and deal with them, it is necessary to pay more attention to the number of family members and the rate of childbearing, and long-term programs should be targeted to motivate and increase population growth

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