Journal of Qualitative Research in Health Sciences
Journal of Qualitative Research in Health Sciences

Phenomenology of Effective Psychological Components on Marital Adjustment among Married People Suffering from Multiple Sclerosis

Authors

Yeganeh Aghaei 1
Seyed Mohammad Kalantar-Kousheh 1
Ebrahim Naeemi 1
Abdolreza Nasermoghadasi 2

1 Department of Psychology, School of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

2 Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Neuroscience Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
Introduction: Multiple sclerosis (MS) disease has side effects on the quality of life of married people. Moreover, the quality of life and marital adjustment of the patients would impact on their disease process. The purpose of the study was to determine psychological components on marital adjustment among married patients with MS.
Method: This was a qualitative and phenomenological research using targeted sampling. Semi-structured interviews were done with 15 married patients with MS (at least one of them suffered from the disease) who came to Sina hospital, Tehran, Iran, until reaching to data saturation.
Results: Assessment of effective psychological components on marital adjustment among married people with MS revealed 8 main themes and 18 subthemes. The main themes were as “spirituality”, “resiliency”, “coping with stress skills”, “conflict-resolving strategies”, “schemas”, “intimate spouse relationships”, “life stresses”, “openness to change”, and “responding to forgiveness”.
Conclusion: Participants in the study ranked the psychological components as first to ninth as spirituality, resiliency, coping with stress styles, conflict-resolving strategies, schemas, intimate spouses relationships, life stresses, openness to change, and responding to forgiveness.

Keywords

Adjustment
Multiple Sclerosis
Marriage ‚Qualitative research
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Journal of Qualitative Research in Health Sciences
Volume 7, Issue 2
2018
Pages 144-156

  • Receive Date 08 July 2020

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