religiosity and marital adjustment; case study of married women of gorgan religiosity and marital adjustment; case study of married women of gorgan

gholamreza khoshfar mahbobeh ilvari date of receive: 2014/12/9date of accept: 2015/5/11abstractthe present study was conducted to identify the relationship between religiosity and marital adjustment. since religion influences family relationships and regarding the fact that in the present conditions the strength of religious values in the family is one of the goals of our islamic society, conducting research is necessary in this field. the method of research is descriptive survey. the population included 144406 married women who live in the city of gorgan. using cochran formula, the sample size was 360 of married women. multi-stage random sampling method was used for the study. for the first selection, 36 randomly selected neighborhoods were chosen, then in every process, in proportion to the number of settled households and using systematic random sampling, 10 married women were selected and studied. the questionnaires of religiosity -lock wallace test- and marital adjustment -gelark and stark test- were the tools of measurement in this study. for data analysis the results, pearson correlation, and backward regression were used in addition to the methods of descriptive statistics. the results showed that there is a significant correlation between religiosity and marital adjustment. there are also significant correlations between three dimensions of religiosity such as belief, ritual and consequences with marital adjustment. the results of regression analysis indicated that the dimension of consequences is a stronger predictor of marital adjustment