Abstract:

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of family education program to marital adjustment and family system for married women. The experimental and control groups of the study consist of a total of 20 people. Within these people who voluntarily agreed to participate in the study, randomly selected 10 people constitute the experimental group and the other 10 people constitute the control group. In the study, Marital Adjustment Scale was used to determine the marital adjustment levels of married women; Family Assessment Device was used to evaluate family systems of them. 12 sessions, each lasting 75 minutes, of family education program was applied to experimental group in a total of seven weeks. No application was made for control group in this sense. After the application and data collection phase, statistical analysis of the data was done. Mann-Withney U test was used to analyse the data obtained from the scales to compare the scores of experimental and control groups that were obtained before and after the group work. In order to compare pre test and post test data of experimental and control groups, Wilcoxon signed-rank test was applied to the scores that were acquired after the application. In this manner, it was determined whether there are any differences between the groups according to the hypotheses. Significance level of statistical results was determined as 0.05. After the research, it was determined that family education program was effective in increasing marital adjustment and state of emotional reactiveness in family system; but it was ineffective in problem solving, communication, roles, affective involvement, behaviour control and general function. Also some suggestions that may be useful for further studies were made in line with the findings. Keywords: Family, family education, family life, marriage, marital adjustment.

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