TITLE:
Marital Satisfaction and Mental Health in Multiple Sclerosis Patients’ and Healthy Individuals’ Accordance to Sex
AUTHORS:
Bita Ajilchi, Arezoo Shomali Oskoei, Flor Rezaeai Kargar
KEYWORDS:
Multiple Sclerosis; Marital Satisfaction; Mental Health
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.4 No.11,
November
27,
2013
ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to compare
marital satisfaction and mental health in male and female multiple sclerosis
patients with healthy males and females. In a correlation study, 59 MS patients
in Tehran (31 female and 28 male, with a range of 25 to 55 years old) were
selected by the random cluster sampling method and 59 healthy individuals were
matched with them in sex and age. Then both groups filled in the marital
satisfaction questionnaire of Enrich and GHQ. The test of multi-variance analysis showed that, regardless of the gender, for
people with MS disease, the marital satisfaction and the whole of its subscales
except the religion and the mental health and its all sub-scales, are
established at a significantly low level. However, the comparison of these
groups due to the gender showed that in the satisfaction elements and
personality issues, the relationship between marital and leisure time of women
patients is worse than men; however, healthy women scores in financial
management are lower than healthy men. In addition, in the elements of mental
health, women and men patients are similar to each other but healthy women have
higher physical symptoms than healthy men (P