Marital Conflict, Marital Satisfaction, and Sexual Satisfaction: Comparison of Women with Relative Marriage and Women with Non-relative Marriage

The purpose of this research is determination of differences in marital conflict, marital satisfaction, and sexual satisfaction between women with relative marriage and non-relative marriage. For this, 191 married women among nurses (100 people with non-relative marriage and 91 persons with relative marriage) employed in Tehran hospitals were selected by cluster sampling and Enrich marital satisfaction, marital conflicts, and sexual satisfaction questionnaires were conducted. Results of single- and multi-variable variance analysis showed meaningful differences between two groups in marital satisfaction variables and their aspects (except sexual relation), marital conflicts and their aspects, and sexual satisfaction. Comparison of means indicated that women with non-relative marriage have higher marital and sexual satisfaction and lower marital conflicts than women with relative marriage. In general, the research results showed that women with non-relative marriage have more satisfying relation in comparison with the ones with relative marriage

Investigating Psychometric Properties of “NEO-Five Factor Inventory” (NEO-FFI)

The major aim of this research was to investigate psychometric properties of “NEO-Five Factor Inventory” (NEO-FFI). To this aim, after doing preliminary stages and resolving possible problems, the exploration of this scale was conducted in two studies: in the first study, in order to assess reliability using internal consistency, 604 undergraduate students of Tehran, Amirkabir and Shahed Universities (334= female and 270= male) with average age of 21.8 (sd=2.49) were selected by available sampling method. Students completed NEO-FFI. Results of this study indicated that Neuroticism and Conscientiousness had acceptable internal consistency in all subjects (higher than 0.70). Of course, Cronbach Alfa of Extroversion and Agreeableness were higher than suggested level for group comparisons (higher than 0.5). Therefore, only openness lacked acceptable internal consistency. In the second study, in order to assess construct validity of NEO-FFI, Pearson’s product-moment correlation was calculated for five factors of NEO-FFI and 9 facets of “Symptom Checklist-90- Revised” (SCL-90-R). Results of these analyses indicated that Neuroticism with all facets of SCL-90-R, Conscientiousness with all facets of SCL-90-R with the exception of paranoid thinking (Bonferroni correction not considered) and obsessive-compulsive facets (Bonferroni correction considered), Agreeableness and Extroversion with 3 and 7 facets of SCL-90-R (Bonferroni correction considered) had significant correlation. Openness did not show any significant correlation with facets of SCL-90-R. Besides, among these factors, only the relationships of Neuroticism with facets of SCL-90-R was a significant positive correlation and the remaining factors had not significant correlation or had significant negative correlation with facets of SCL-90-R. In conclusion, results of this study with respect to literature review about investigating psychometric properties of NEO-FFI in non-English cultures suggest need to investigate factor structure of this in Iranian population