Psychological Stress and Its Relation to Marital Compatibility among Early Married Couples

Document Type : summaries of MA theses and PhD dissertations along with research derived from them

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt.

Abstract

The current research aims at studying the relationship between psychological stress and marital compatibility on a sample of 60 husbands and wives of early married couples where the scale (psychological stress - marital compatibility scale) was used plus the descriptive, correlational and comparative approach. Also, the statistical packages for social sciences program were used to reach the results which include the existence of a negative correlation between psychological stress and marital compatibility among early married couples. It is necessary to shed light on increasing awareness of this phenomenon and everything related to it.

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