Compare The Psychological Basis of Satisfaction In Blind Couples, Sighted Couples and Blind Man or Woman Couples
Abstract
Since marital satisfaction is an important factor to have a life in peace. Thus, to study the state of couple's satisfaction, is so necessary. In this research, a survey containing of 20 both blind couples, 20 both sighted couples, 20 couples with blind man and sighted woman and 10 couples with blind woman and sighted man according to educational level, duration of common life and the economic situation under the purposive sampling is selected from all the blind and sighted couples of Tehran city. After collecting the data, it was studied by one way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and independent (t) test. According to the result of the total average of couples, it does not have any big difference with 95%. Only in 3 subsets of common life, personal behaviours plus communicational and social behaviours, couples with man or woman blind is higher than couples who are both blind or able to see. The same situation of marital satisfaction represented probably the state of blindness is not the main cause of couple's satisfaction.