Khadige Abadian, Zohreh Keshavarz, Hourieh Shamshiri Milani , Mostafa Hamdieh, Atefeh Aghaei, Tayebeh Mokhtarian Gilani ,
Volume 78, Issue 11 (2-2021)
Background: Marital satisfaction is considered to be the feelings and understanding of the couple about their marital relationship and their two-way relationship. Many factors play a role in creating marital satisfaction, and on the other hand, marital satisfaction is one of the concepts that cause sexual health in a person. Sexual health has many dimensions and includes coordination and adaptation of physical, emotional, intellectual, and social aspects of sexual affairs in humans. This study was conducted to assess the marital satisfaction of working women in Iran through meta-analysis.
Methods: In this meta-analytic study, the issue of marital satisfaction amongst Iranian working women which has been published in local articles was evaluated. To find pertaining studies, Magiran, IranDoc, SID, Iranmedex, and Pubmed websites were used. Statistical society in this research consists of all studies in Iran in regard to the relationship between being a working woman and having marital satisfaction that has been accomplished since 2001-2018 and was indexed in one of the scientific informative websites.
To access desired articles we used the English keywords of ‘Sexual dysfunction’, ‘Iran’, ‘Sexual function’, ‘Marital satisfaction’, ‘Working women’ and ‘women’ and their Persian equivalents. After the selection process of articles related to the research objectives, 10 articles were selected and assessed as final samples.
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Results: Collected data indicate that the average size of the influence of working on marital satisfaction in research samples was equal to 0.063. Point estimate based on Cohen scale shows low influence level.
Conclusion: The influence of being a working woman on marital satisfaction is not approved. Generally being a working woman can be effective on marital satisfaction at a weak level. However, regarding the impact of women’s work on marital satisfaction, research’s statistical society is also effective and should be considered. On the other hand, the positive impacts of being a working woman has become more significant over time.
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