Predicting Family Efficiency based on the Family's External Boundaries and the Couples’ Wisdom

The aim of this study was to predict the efficiency of the family based on the external boundaries of the family and the wisdom of the couples. The research method was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population of study was couples of Qom. From the population, 120 people were selected through random sampling. To collect the research data, Safouraei’s (2009) efficiency of family questionnaire, Hooshyari’s family outer boundaries (1399), and Schmidt, Maldon and Panders’s (2012) wisdom questionnaire were used. The results were analyzed using correlation coefficient and linear regression statistical methods. The findings showed that: a) there was a significant positive relationship between family efficiency and its three dimensions with external boundaries and couples' wisdom, b) The two predictor variables together predicted 33.7, 20.7, 25.9 and 34.4% of family efficiency and dimensions of insightful, legal and moral respectively. C) The external boundaries of the family played a greater role than wisdom in predicting the efficiency of the family and its three dimensions.