The Study of the Relationship between Parents' Marital Communication Quality and Children's Happiness

Abstract

Happiness or joyfulness is one of the basic human needs that has been considered by positive psychologists in recent years.Happiness and joyfulness are of fundamental importance to the mental, psychological, physical, and social health of humans.Since children are the important members of society, their happiness will be the context and foundation of a society with a high quality of life. this study has been aimed at investigating the relationship between the quality of marital relationship between parents and children’s joyfulness.This research is conducted by descriptive-correlational method.The statistical population of the study includes the parents of children aged 7 to 12 in Ardabil city, Iran.The sample size of this study is 154 parents of children aged 7 to 12 years in Ardabil city chosen by simple random sampling. The tools used in the present study include the Marital Relationship Quality Scale of Basby et al. (1995) and the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire by Argyle and Lue (1989). Data were analyzed by means of Pearson analysis as well as regression tests.The data confirmed , there is a positive and significant relationship between the quality of parents’ marital relationships and children’s happiness. Moreover, there is a positive and significant relationship between each of the aspects of the quality of the parents’ marital relationship, i.e. cohesion, agreement, besides marital satisfaction of the parents with the children’s happiness.Conclusion:Therefore, one of the factors that can play a positive role in children's happiness is the quality of parents' marital relationships.Therefor it is necessary to address the issue.