Inspecting the Relationship between Sexual Satisfaction and Marital Problems of Divorce-asking Women in Sanandaj City Family Courts

Marriage is one of the most important sources of social support for the identity of an individual as an adult, although some of the factors which affect its success or failure have not been recognized so far. Higher level of sexual satisfaction results in higher marital satisfaction, which in turn decreases marital instability and divorce. In this descriptive-correlation study, the divorce-asking women in family courts of Sanandaj city are considered as the statistical population with a sample size of 400 subjects who were selected via available sampling in 2011. Data gathering tool contains the scales for measuring sexual satisfaction and also marital problems. Findings show that sexual satisfaction has a significant negative effect on marital problems (r = -0.35, P<0.01). This significant negative relation between the mentioned variables means that the individuals who have reported lower sexual satisfaction, have higher marital problems. The calculated value of R-square (R-2 = 0.123) for reporting correlations shows %12 congruence between those variables. Divorce-asking women, whom in this study score low sexual satisfaction, have higher scores in marital problems. Sexual satisfaction could predict low marital problems among couples. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.