. Abdollah Maleki; . Yousef Veisani; . Sehat Aibod; . Akbar Azizifar; . Mostafa Alirahmi; . Fathola Mohamadian
Volume 9, Issue 4 , April 2019, , Pages 1-7
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Marital satisfaction, conscientiousness, and self‑compassion are necessaryfor successful and lasting marriages. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate ...
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BACKGROUND: Marital satisfaction, conscientiousness, and self‑compassion are necessaryfor successful and lasting marriages. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate therelationship between marital satisfaction, conscientiousness, and self‑compassion among marriedemployees of Shahid Mostafa Khomeini Hospital in the city of Ilam in 2017.METHODOLOGY: This study is a descriptive research with a correlation design. The researchpopulation included all 260 married employees of Mostafa Khomeini (I) Hospital in the city of Ilam,among which 150 were selected using simple random sampling. Data were collected using threequestionnaires of conscientiousness, self‑compassions, and marital satisfaction. Data were analyzedusing Pearson correlation and multivariate regression.RESULTS: The research results revealed a positive and significant relationship betweenconscientiousness and marital satisfaction (P = 0.028 and r = 0.187) and a positive and significantrelationship between self‑compassion and marital satisfaction (P = 0.000 and r = 0.185). Bothconscientiousness and self‑compassion variables could predict 51% of the variance of maritalsatisfaction among married employees.CONCLUSIONS: Given the research results, it could be stated that people who have self‑compassionand have a high level of conscientiousness make much effort for their improvement and resolvingtheir committed mistakes. For this reason, they have high motivation to maintain marital relationships.
