The Relationship Between Social Health and Marital Life Satisfaction Among War Veterans with Disabilities

Abstract The present study is intended to investigate and identify the relationhip between social health and marital life satisfaction among veterans of war with a disability of over 25 percent in Sar-Poul-Zehab and Ghasr-e Shirin cities of Kermanshah. This study sought to answer this question: Is there a significant relationship between social health and marital life satisfaction? The controlling variables were percentage of disability, time of accurance of disability, and duration of disability. this research is survey-based and explanatory. Using the Cochran formula, the research sample was determined 235 veterans of war with a disability of over 25 percent. The reliability of the assessment tool was affirmed though formal methods and its validity using the Cronbach alpha. Finally, the data were collected through questionnaires along with interviews and were analyzed using the SPSS software, a t-test and the Pearson test. The findings showed a significant relationship between social health and marital life satisfaction among the war veterans. There was no significant relationship between the percentage of disability and marital life satisfaction. However, there was a significant relationship between time of ocurrance of disability, marriage duration, and marital life satisfaction. The innovation in this study, was the evaluation and confirmation of the relationship between macro and micro levels. It was concluded that higher social health would result in more satisfaction in the marital lives of war veterans with disabilites. Furthermore, marital life satisfaction among these veterans declined with a longer duration of married life. However, the percentage of their disability did not influence their marital life satisfaction. Keywords: Social Health, Satisfaction, Marital Life, War Veterans With Disabilities, Kermansha