Marital Compatibility and Its Relationship with Psychological Hardiness among Married Postgraduate Female Students at Tafila Technical University
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Marital adjustment, psychological resilience, married graduate female students.Abstract
Objectives:This study aimed to determine the level of marital adjustment and psychological resilience among married female postgraduate students and to explore the nature of the relationship between these two variables within this group.
Method:The study adopted a descriptive correlational approach. To achieve its objectives, two scales were developed: the Marital Adjustment Scale and the Psychological Resilience Scale. The study sample consisted of 150 married female postgraduate students from Tafila Technical University.
Results:The findings indicated that the level of marital adjustment among participants was high, with its dimensions ranked as follows: family adjustment, emotional-psychological adjustment, intellectual adjustment, and economic adjustment. The results also showed a high level of psychological resilience, with its dimensions ranked in the following order: control, commitment, and challenge. Additionally, the study revealed a statistically significant positive correlation between marital adjustment and psychological resilience.
Conclusions:The study concluded that there is a statistically significant positive relationship between marital adjustment and psychological resilience, suggesting that enhancing one of these factors may contribute to improving the other.
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