Abstract:
Objectives: The aim of current study was the evaluation and comparison of compatibility and marital satisfaction between handicapped couples and healthy ones.Methods: In this study, 50 handicapped couples and 50 healthy couples were examined with Enrich’s marital satisfaction questionnaire and Bell’s adjustment questionnaire. The data were analyzed, using SPSS 15, correlation tests and ANOVA.Results: The results showed that there was no significant difference between handicapped and healthy couples in compatibility and marital satisfaction.Discussion: It is concluded that people who were handicapped before their marriage and those who decided to marry them were suitably aware of the issue, therefore accepting a handicapped person was not so hard. What is important in marital compatibility is accepting a partner.
Machine summary:
Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 13, Issue 2, Summer 2015 Original Article Compatibility and Marital Satisfaction in Disabled Couples Compared to Healthy Ones Yasaman Abed*; Aliasghar Asghar Nezhad; Hamidreza Hatami Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran Objectives: The aim of current study was the evaluation and comparison of compatibility and marital satisfaction between handicapped couples and healthy ones.
Sedghamiz (2008) performed a study about factors affecting marital adjustment on 577 normal and disabled couples in Shiraz, and showed a highly significant relationship between the level of education, number of children, the man’s employment status, the couple’s age difference and marital adjustment (14).
This means that with physical health, couples can have more pleasant experience by living together, thus physical and mental disabilities can, sometimes, have serious negative impacts on relationships between couples and their marital satisfaction.
Given that no research has been conducted to evaluate the marital adjustment and satisfaction of these couples, the present study explores these two issues among disabled people and compares them with non-disabled couples.
Thus, it can be argued that the control group of healthy couples and the disabled couples showed no significant difference in terms of marital satisfaction and adjustment, using ANOVA (table 3).
2015 significant difference between healthy couples and couples with disabilities in the scale of adjustment and marital satisfaction.
Also, research shows support from spouses of the disabled as the most important factor, along with mental health and marital satisfaction, which enhances the quality of their lives.