Comparison of Irrational Beliefs, Communication Skills and Marital Adjustment in Three Generations of Tehrani Women

The purpose of this study was to compare irrational beliefs, communication skills and marital adjustment in three generations of Tehrani women.

The statistical population of the present study consisted of married women aged 21 to 65 in Tehran in three generations of 21-35 years old, 36-50 years old and 51-65 years old and in a sample of 91 people who were selected by available sampling method, Done. Accomplished. For collecting information, three standard questionnaires of Jones's irrational beliefs (1986), communication skills (2004), and spinier marital adjustment (1978) were used with appropriate validity and validity. After collecting the questionnaires, the data were analyzed using SPSS software at the descriptive level of abundance indexes, central tendency indicators, dispersion indices and graphs, and at the inferential level, one-way analysis of variance analysis and Tukey post hoc test and multivariate regression analysis.

The results showed that among the components of irrational beliefs, the component of emotional irresponsibility, the group of women aged 65-51 (third generation) scored a higher score compared to women aged 35-21 (first generation). In the communication skills, the cold management component of the exciting interactions of the 51-55-year-old women group had less scores compared to women aged 35-29. In marital adjustment, the overall consistency scores of the third generation were lower than those of the other two generations and the second-generation grade was also higher than that of the first generation.

With increasing life span, irrational beliefs have increased and communication skills have been reduced and marital adjustment has decreased.