Explaining the prediction model of students' marital conflicts based on basic needs

The aim of this study was to explain the model of predicting marital conflicts of students based on basic needs. This study is of descriptive method and the design is correlational based on structural equation modeling. The statistical population included all married students of 4 Azad University of Tehran in 2018. A sample of 172 students of Islamic Azad University (131 females, 41 males) were selected by cluster sampling method and within each cluster through purposive sampling method. Data were collected using Marital Conflict Questionnaires (MCQ) and Glaser's Basic Needs and analyzed using spss-22 software. The findings indicated that there is a significant positive relationship between the levels of satisfaction of basic needs. The correlation between marital conflicts with the need for love and belonging and the need to pleasure is also negative and significant. The correlation between the five basic needs is positive and significant; therefore, marital conflicts can be predicted using basic needs.