Abstract
Stress significantly influences marital satisfaction. Women tend to be more emotionally involved in problems than men. Furthermore, employed women encounter more stressors especially when their job is stressful which it is often the case in medical professionals. In the present cross-sectional study, relationships were analyzed between marital satisfaction (ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Inventory), ways of coping (Ways of Coping questionnaire) with marital stress and social support (Social Support Questionnaire) in 100 female medical staff members in Tehran university hospitals. The results revealed a significant negative relationship between subscales of marital satisfaction and using “seeking social support”, “confrontive coping”, “escape avoidance”, “distancing”, and “self-controlling” as ways of coping related to marriage related problems. Furthermore, the analyses showed that job satisfaction, social support, and ways of coping explain between 24% and 38% of the variance in subscales of marital satisfaction. Therefore focusing on these factors could be an effective approach to promote marital satisfaction in female medical staff members.
Highlights
Stress is an important and unavoidable concern in everyday life which people have to deal with
Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were calculated to evaluate the predictive power of the WoC factors for marital satisfaction factors. Those women who reported a marriage-related event for the ways of coping checklist (WOC) were, on average, younger (t(171) = -3.65; p < .001), their husbands were younger (t(476) = -2.36; p = .019), were married for a shorter period (t(217) = -4.82; p < .001), and had fewer children (t(476) = -2.75; p = .006) than the other women
The situations that were reported as a stressful event for the WOC by these women could be grouped into four categories: conflict because of problem between the spouses (50%), conflict because of husband’s family or friends (25%), conflict about a child’s upbringing (17%), and conflict because of economic problems (8%)
Summary
Stress is an important and unavoidable concern in everyday life which people have to deal with. Especially Iranian women, encounter conflicts between modern and traditional values, and they are still considered as the responsible person for home duties. They have different roles, as wife, mother, homemaker, and employee that are somehow incompatible. Expectations from employed women related to their family role are similar high compared to those who are unemployed or house wives (Rafatjah, 2011) This inter-role conflict is an important source of stress, and employed women have to find a balance between their different roles. They experience multiple-roles stress that can affect their marital, parental, and occupational situation (Kandel, Davies, & Raveis, 1985)
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