A study on the relationship between irrational thinking and marital adjustment in female staffs

Abstract

Human is a social creature, so that he/she finds it difficult to live without the others. Marriage is the first cornerstone of making family and society that has many effects and consequences like the satisfaction of instinct, the production and survival of generations and etc. According to sociologists and psychologists in recent years, security, safety and peace and relationships between men and women have moved toward frailty and weakness and families have faced destructive forces. One of the factors that are involved in marital adjustment is irrational thinking that includes wrong conclusions or internal contradictions. An important issue is the high rate of divorce in the society and while couples accuse each other about the lack of understanding and having unusual expectations. The present study is correlational and Jones irrational thinking questionnaire and Harmon Singh marital adjustment test (Form B) were used only for women.
The correlation coefficient was negative and reverse only about the two components of (rebuke of oneself) and (concern with anxiety). This coefficient was significant about the component of (rebuke of oneself) which means that marital adjustment decreases with the increase of this type of thinking.