Relationship between Action Flexibility and Personality Traits with Marital Adjustment in Married Students of Shahrood Azad University

Document Type : Original Article

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1 M.A. in Psychology Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran

Abstract

Objective:  The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between action flexibility and personality traits with marital adjustment in married students.
Methods: The present study was a descriptive correlational study. In this study, 400 married students of Shahrood Azad University in the academic year 2020-2021 were selected by convenience sampling method. Action flexibility questionnaire, personality traits questionnaire and marital adjustment questionnaire were used to collect data. Data was analyzed simultaneously using SPSS software version 21 through statistical method of Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression.
Results:  Findings showed that there was a significant relationship between action flexibility and marital adjustment. There was also a significant correlation between the components of extraversion, agreeableness and openness to experience with marital adjustment; but there was no significant correlation between the components of honesty-humility, emotionality and conscientiousness with marital adjustment.
Conclusion: Action Flexibility allows the individual to adapt well to the traumatic events of life, and individuals successfully demonstrate positive adaptation to traumatic events, which can be related to and lead to marital adjustment. Personality traits cause people to react differently to life issues and problems. The more people are able to control stress, the less they use emotion-based coping techniques that lead to incompatibility.




 

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  • Receive Date: 04 January 2022
  • Revise Date: 12 February 2022
  • Accept Date: 22 February 2022

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