Qulitative study of the challenges related to simultaneous educational and family roles playing

In recent decades, Iranian society has witnessed widespread participation of women in higher education. These new conditions have imposed on them several roles playing, and to the same extent which acted as the source of improving their quality of life, have faced them with new challenges for the coordination of home and family duties with academic assignments. It is therefore necessary to study the dimensions of the category of conflict between family and educational roles of women and the causes of these conflicts and how students are confronted with these challenges in a qualitative study. For this purpose, 22 married women were selected on the basis of a purposed sampling and with a maximum of variations among the participants and semi-structured, individually and face-to-face interviews were conducted by them. The findings show that the inaproperate performance of the educational system, the maternal and parenting role pressure, the spousal role pressure and the weakness of family support and the negative role of the family, are of the causal conditions of educational and family role conflicts of married students. Decreased sense of control over life, academic burnout, weakening of marital intimacy, and decreased mental capacity are the consequences of the role conflict phenomenon. . The interviewees adopted two positive and negative coping strategies in confronting this conflict. The core category extracted from this study is the neglect of the education system of the family institution.