[ level of marital adjustment in dormitory students]

ABSTRACT

The aim of this project was to evaluate the level of marital adjustment and the relation between marital adjustment and some demographic variables in a group of students residing at the dormitories of Tehran University of medical sciences. This is a descriptive-cross sectional study.The instrument to collect data was the marital adjustment questionnaire. The subjects for this study were 148 residents of married students dormitory of Tehran University of Medical Sciences [74 males, 74 females]. Data were analyzed by chi-square and Fisher's LSD. This project indicated 75.8% marital adjustment and 24.2% incompatibility. Among evaluated variables, there were significant correlations between the variable marital adjustment and both age difference between the couples as well as duration of marriage in years. Marital adjustment is reduced with the raise in age difference between the couples and duration of marriage