Predicting Couples' Communication Patterns based on the Health of the Original Family, Feelings of love, and Marriage Values
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Objective: Difficulties in relationships can be traumatic and disturbing, mainly because people are profoundly social beings. This research aimed to predict couples' communication patterns by examining the health of their original family , love, and values related to marriage.
Methods and Materials: The study methodology used descriptive-correlational. The research population involved all married individuals living in Mashhad during the first six months of 2022. One hundred 100 participants were chosen to use convenience sampling methods and completed standardized questionnaires on the Christensen‑Sullaway couples’ communication pattern questionnaire (Christensen & Shenk, 1991), the Original Family Health Assessment Questionnaire (Hovestadt et al., 1985),the Sternberg Love Questionnaire (Sternberg, 1997), and Marriage Values Survey (Delkhamoush, 2013). Statistical analysis was conducted multivariate regression and Pearson's correlation coefficient using SPSS.22.
Findings: The standard path coefficient (β) indicates that love has a significant predictive power of 0.74, 0.57, and 0.50 for withdrawal-expectation, mutual constructiveness, and mutual avoidance, respectively (P<0.001). This suggests that love plays a strong role in determining communication patterns. Furthermore, the standard path coefficient (β) for marriage values in predicting these communication patterns is 0.68, 0.58, and 0.53 for withdrawal-expectation, mutual constructiveness, and mutual avoidance, respectively, indicating a strong predictive power(P<0.001).
Conclusion: The findings suggest that couples' communication patterns can be predicted based on the health of their original family , love, and marriage values.
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