The Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Marital Conflicts in College Students

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and marital conflicts in college students. The statistical population of this research includes all married students of Islamic Azad University and Birjand State University, including 4000 people. The number of sample members was 351 based on Morgan's table. After the samples were dropped, the total number of samples was considered to be 320 people who were selected using the multi-stage cluster sampling method. The measurement tools in this research were the Kansas Marital Conflict Questionnaire (1985), the Rosenberg Questionnaire and the Self-Esteem Questionnaire (1965), which had acceptable validity and reliability. In order to analyze the data, inferential statistics of Pearson's correlation coefficient and multivariate regression were used using SPSS-23 software. The results showed that there is a relationship between marital conflicts and self-esteem. Also, the results of statistical analysis indicated that self-esteem can predict marital conflicts.