Journal of Family Research
Year:2017 | Volume:13 | Issue:50 |Papers Count:8

The aim of this study was to identify the predictors of marital happiness and to suggest a pattern for predicting marital happiness in married individuals. The population of the present study comprised all married men and women with an age range of 20 to 50 years, residing in Tehran, and married for at least two years. The Sampling was conducted in two stages. The first stage was conducted via convenient sampling and 67 married individuals completed the Enrich Marital Satisfaction and the Tagarian Marital Happiness Questionnaires. At the second stage, via purposeful sampling, 20 of married individuals with the highest scores on both questionnaires have been interviewed.Finally, data were analyzed using qualitative research methods (open, axial and selective coding) to develop codes and categories. The results showed that four types of factors contributed to marital happiness. They were demographic factors such as age difference, education and income; interpersonal factors such as forgiveness; intrapersonal factors such as acceptance and family factors.According to the results, it seems that among these factors, intrapersonal factors, particularly one’s personal characteristics, perception and standards play a main role in prediction of the marital happiness.

The prevalence of social networks and the excessive use of them by couples have had a significant impact on various aspects of their lives. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of social networks in the formation of narcissism, perception of social interaction and marital conflicts in couples who use these social networks. The study design was correlational and the statistical population included couples of Zanjan city who use social networks.120 couples which widely used social networks were selected by random sampling. The questionnaires of Internet Addiction (Young, 1998), Narcissistic Personality (Ames and et al, 2006), Perception of Social Interaction (Glass, 1994) and Marital Conflict (Sanaei, 2000) were used. Pearson correlation coefficient and Regression were used for data analysis. This study showed that there is a significant negative relationship between the use of social networks with perception of social interaction, and a significant positive relationship between the use of social networks with narcissism and marital conflicts (P<0.01). Also narcissism has a signifycant positive relationship with marital conflicts, and a significant negative relationship with perception of social interaction (P<0.01). Social networks have a negative effect on couple's relationship and their feelings towards each other, as well as strengthening narcissism, which can cause communication problems, decreased positive feelings of couples towards each other and marital conflicts.

Child rearing and improving various dimensions of human development are basic life challenges of contemporary societies. According to this, the aim of this research was to identify the main components of child rearing based on Iranian parents’ view. The research method was qualitative and the statistical population, based on ethnicity were Urmia (Turkish & Kurdish) and Tehran (Persian) cities. The samples were chosen purposively until theoretical saturation was achieved.300 Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect the Parents’ viewpoints of child rearing. After data analysis (coding and content analysis), nine main components of moral, religious, physical, financial, political, social, sexual, emotional, and intellectual trainings were extracted. According to the results of survey, the Iranian parents mainly focused on religious, moral, and social training goals, while they had few information about some of components such as emotional, sexual, political, and financial trainings. The results of the present study can provide proper background information to fill the existing knowledge gap of Iranian parents’ perspectives about child rearing.

The purpose of this research was to examine the effectiveness of quality of life therapy on reducing parental stress and its dimensions among mothers who have children with intellectual disability. The research was designed as semi experimental pretest-posttest with a control group. The statistical population was all mothers who had school children with intellectual disability in Semirom town.The statistical sample contained 30 mothers with intellectually disabled children who were voluntary selected. They were randomly assigned in experimental (15 mothers) and control (15 mothers) groups.While the control group was in waiting list, the experimental group received eight 90-minutes sessions of quality of life therapy. The measurement was the short form of Parental Stress Questionnaire (Abedin, 1983). Both groups were evaluated in pre-test and post-test. Collected data were analyzed by descriptive (means and standard deviations) and inferential statistic (multivariate covariate analysis) methods. The results showed that the scores of control group in posttest parental stress was higher in comparison to experimental group. As regard to the results it can be said that the quality of life therapy training is significantly effective on improving parental stress and its dimensions among mothers with Intellectually Disabled Children.

The present study was aimed at examining the factor structure, validity, and reliability of Parent-Child Interaction Questionnaire-Revised (PACHIQ-R) among Iranian families. This questionnaire measures two subscales of conflict resolution and acceptance in the two dimensions of parents (21 questions) and children (25 questions). PACHIQ-R questionnaire was translated from English and back-translated and was carried out on a random sample of 400 individuals (200 girls and 200 boys and their parents) in high schools. Factor analysis was employed in order to determine the construct validity. Retest method and internal consistency by Cronbach’s Alpha were used to check the reliability of the questionnaire’s forms (father evaluation by child, mother evaluation by child, child evaluation by father, and child evaluation by mother). The results of measuring the reliability using Alpha coefficient indicated 0.89 to 0.97 for instrument’s subscales. Subscales showed that fitness indices of confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the presence of two first-order factors in both scales, which showed that the two-factor model of the four forms was fit with the data. In general, it can be stated that this scale has necessary properties of validity and reliability and can be employed in family research studies and consultation. Few and comprehensive items of this questionnaire result in collecting sufficient data in minimum time.

This study was aimed to investigate the relationship between family communication patterns and students’ adjustment to university with the mediating role of coping strategies. Research design was correlational and the statistical population was all undergraduate students at Islamic Azad University, Behbahan Branch. To conduct this study, 523 students who were selected by random multi-stage cluster sampling method, completed the revised Family Communication Pattern, the Multidimensional Coping Inventory, and the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire. The findings showed that the family conversation orientation could directly and significantly predict adaptation to university. The relationship between problem-oriented coping and adjustment to university was positive and statistically significant; while the relationship between emotion-oriented copying and adjustment to university was negative and statistically significant. Also, the relationship between family communication patterns and coping strategies was significant. In addition, family communication patterns could indirectly predict the adjustment to university through coping strategies as a mediator. All in all, it can be concluded that the family conversation orientation through problem-oriented coping strategy can positively affect students’ adjustment to university, and the family conformity orientation through emotion-orientated coping strategy can negatively influence it.

Recently Iran passed a law titled “Protection of Children without Guardian or with an Improper Guardian” that provides in part: "... marriage between a guardian and an adopted child is prohibited both during and after custody, unless a competent court, after obtaining the advisory opinion from the [state welfare] organization, affirms that it is in the interest of the adopted child." It was claimed that in the absence of a prohibition under Sharia law and silence of the legislation in force, there exist some cases of marriage with an adopted child. Hence, with this regulation a competent court may allow such marriages based on the interest of the adopted child and in this way, at least the child will be protected against possible harms. This claim raises the question that given articles 10, 20 and 21 of the Constitution, to what extent can such a provision protect the sanctity and solidarity of familial relations based on Islamic law and ethics, woman's rights, protecting children without guardians, and equal legal protection for all, including men and women? This paper addresses this question by analyzing the consequences of such a provision, and ultimately suggests that, in order to prevent the immorality of relations within families and the collapse of the family, and to ensure the protection of the child from harms and protect the rights of women, repealing this provision must be placed on the agenda of the Legislature as soon as possible.

The present paper aims to visualize and analyze the co-authorship network of articles of national congress on family pathology using social network analysis (SNA) indicators. The present paper employed the descriptive research method with scientometrics approach and analyzed social network by micro and macro indicators. UCINET software was used to visualize and analyze the co-authorship network, and VOS viewer software was utilized to visualize a density network of the co-authorship.The 6th congress includes the most articles and the 5th includes the least papers. Dual and triple patterns of co-authorship are assigned as the most common patterns in the studied network. However, the most applied authorship pattern during the 6th hold congresses was the collaborative coauthor ship pattern. The network has low consistency and contains many isolated nodes. “Sadeghi”, “Mazaheri”, “Dehghani”, “Zardamvi” and “Yaryari” are conside-red as social capitals of the network due to their high centrality and collaboration degree.