Actional Space within the Family and Marital Satisfaction (Case study: Married women in Urmia)

Following the developments and changes that are taking place in the structure of human societies, The family unit has not been spared from these developments. Therefore, marital incompatibility has become a social problem that harms the institution of the family and gradually leads the society to a critical situation and to the point of disintegration of values. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of action space within the family on women's marital satisfaction. According to Parsons and Chalby's theory of social order, the action space of the family is measured in terms of similarity, togetherness, harmony and empathy. Based on a simple random sampling method, 380 married women in Urmia were selected as statistical samples and after collecting data, the information was analyzed by SPSS software. The variables of ideological similarity, counseling in decisions, women's power in the family, feeling of security in the family, respect for women in the family, non-interference of others, husband's cooperation in housework, trust in husband, feeling of pressure in role and the couple's dialogue with each other entered the model at the same time. Eventually, the variables of the couple's dialogue with each other, respect for the woman in the family, consultation in decisions and a sense of security in the family remained in the model, and these variables were able to explain 0.36 of the variance of life satisfaction. The results showed that the structure of the action space within the family has a significant effect on women's marital satisfaction and by changing the family's action space from similarity, togetherness to harmony and empathy, it has increased the satisfaction of marital life. Following the developments and changes that are taking place in the structure of human societies, The family unit has not been spared from these developments. Therefore, marital incompatibility has become a social problem that harms the institution of the family and gradually leads the society to a critical situation and to the point of disintegration of values. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of action space within the family on women's marital satisfaction. According to Parsons and Chalby's theory of social order, the action space of the family is measured in terms of similarity, togetherness, harmony and empathy. Based on a simple random sampling method, 380 married women in Urmia were selected as statistical samples and after collecting data, the information was analyzed by SPSS software. The variables of ideological similarity, counseling in decisions, women's power in the family, feeling of security in the family, respect for women in the family, non-interference of others, husband's cooperation in housework, trust in husband, feeling of pressure in role and the couple's dialogue with each other entered the model at the same time. Eventually, the variables of the couple's dialogue with each other, respect for the woman in the family, consultation in decisions and a sense of security in the family remained in the model, and these variables were able to explain 0.36 of the variance of life satisfaction. The results showed that the structure of the action space within the family has a significant effect on women's marital satisfaction and by changing the family's action space from similarity, togetherness to harmony and empathy, it has increased the satisfaction of marital life.