Conceptual Model Codification of Marital Satisfaction in Healthy Family: Based on Cultural Context

Abstract

Marital satisfaction is considered as one of the most important criteria of a healthy family and from the basics of a couple relationship that is the concept dealt with the family and cultural contexts of society. The purpose of this study has been the codification of a conceptual model in the healthy family context. It has been done in the qualitative approach and it is based on grounded theory. The research instrument has been progressed through deep interviews until theoretic saturation. Twenty one satisfied couples have been sampled and interviewed in Tehran. Analysis has resulted 145 open codes, 25 axial codes and a selective code named the care of marital relation stability and its upgrade. According to paradigm model of findings, what is extracted as the efficient factors of forming marital satisfaction included causal conditions and Interfering factors including interactive causal and socio-cultural components have also played roles in marital satisfaction. Obstacles existing on the way of couples' satisfaction process have included the horizontal stress factor and the level system; Contrast these barriers, strategies including self-eminency, crisis management and activation of mechanisms making couple relation stable and upgrade such as belief acceptance and religious behaviors, patience and compatibility have been adopted. Marital satisfaction phenomena had individual (as happiness), couple (as feeling secure in relation) and socio-cultural (as successful parenting and social acceptability) consequences for them.

Keywords

• marital satisfaction
• satisfied couples
• family health
• cultural context