Future Career Anxiety and Its Relationship with Marital Distress Among the Al-Hussein Bin Talal University Students

Abstract

Background: Youth is a very important stage of human life that an individual establishes for the personal and professional future. This stage contains many developmental tasks that must be optimized to avoid falling into serious problems or disrupting one’s life. Objectives: This descriptive correlational study was done to identify future career anxiety and its relationship with marital distress among university students. Methods: A sample of 487 male and female students at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University in Jordan answered the two used instruments to measure marital distress and future career anxiety. Results: The results indicated a high level of Future career anxiety and a moderate level of marital distress. Also, there was a positive relationship between both of these factors. There were no significant differences in marital distress between students regarding gender, faculty, year of study, birth order, and income level. However, there were significant differences in future career anxiety due to the year of study in favor of the fourth year, also in the income in favor of the low income. On the other hand, there were no significant differences in Future Career Anxiety due to gender, faculty, and birth order. Conclusions: The present study demonstrated a relationship between future career anxiety and Marital distress.