The relationship between employment of male doctors with marital satisfaction and life quality of their wives

The family is the most important social institution; marital satisfaction play vital role in its persistence. However, various factor impact on the marital satisfaction. The aim of current research is to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction with marital satisfaction and life quality in male doctors and wives in Tehran city.

This search is a correlation study. The sample includes 150 general physicians working in Tehran (along with their wives, total samples were 300 persons) that were selected through multistage cluster sampling in 2014. The questionnaire was used for data collection in this study was composed of 4 parts including demographic, Health Status Questionnaire Short Form-36, Enrich Marital Satisfaction and Job Descriptive Index. Data were analyzed using SPSS-18 by Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression.

The findings of current research show that there is a significant relationship between job satisfaction and life quality, marital satisfaction and its subscales (p