Spouse love and marital quality of life with job burnout symptoms: the mediating role of marital adjustment

Authors
sanaz dehghan marvasti
ali jafari
farhangian University
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to investigate the mediating role of marital adjustment in the relationship between love for spouse and the quality of married life of teachers. The research was descriptive in terms of purpose, application, and correlation type. The statistical population of the present study included all male and female teachers working in Yazd city (approximately 5500 people). The sampling method was multi-stage cluster random. Among 45 schools of district 1, 320 teachers were selected as research samples. His research tools were Sternberg's Love Questionnaire (1987), Busby et al.'s Quality of Marital Life (1995) and Spouse Compatibility Scale of Spanier and Crowley (1986). Path analysis method and Lisrel software were used for data analysis. The findings showed that there is a direct and meaningful relationship between the variable of love for spouse and compatibility of spouses (r=0.731). There is a direct and significant relationship (r=0.89) between the spouses' compatibility variable and the quality of married life. The variable of love for spouse does not have a direct and significant relationship with the quality of married life (r=0.07).
Keywords
Marital Adjustment
love for spouse
quality of married life
Job burnout
teachers
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