Features of self-assessment and quality of marriage communication in women from unfavorable families

in an empirical study conducted to identify the peculiarities of marital communication between women from disadvantaged families, the study sample consisted of 50 married women who, by decision of the authorities for the prevention of neglect and juvenile delinquency and specialists in the field of guardianship, were forcibly sent to specialized institutions “My Family Center Dialog” and “My Family Center “Landmark”, where individual preventive work was carried out with them in order to increase their parental responsibility and develop parental competencies. The obtained results allowed us to establish that 1) among women from disadvantaged families, the least pronounced component of marital communication is understanding of the partner; 2) the majority of women from disadvantaged families have an average level of self-esteem; 3 this category of women is characterized by significant emotional discomfort: they are not satisfied with their situation, are highly dependent on the social environment, are prone to codependent relationships, lack trust in others and hope for the future, have difficulty controlling their emotions, are unbalanced, inflexible, constantly worried about real and imaginary troubles. It was found that there is a significant negative relationship between the understanding of a partner in communication and the psycho-emotional state, as well as an integral indicator of subjective well-being. The higher the spouse’s understanding, the lower the irritability, anxiety, and fatigue, and the closer the woman’s condition is to a subjective sense of well-being. A significant negative relationship has been revealed between the level of authority of the spouse and such a component of the subjective experience of well-being as a psycho-emotional state: the higher the level of authority of the spouse in interpersonal marital communication (the more the spouse is perceived by a woman as a significant, respected figure), the less pronounced such psycho-emotional states as anxiety, irritability, internal tension. The data obtained will be used in practical work with families of the SOP category, which is socially dangerous.

dysfunctional family, marital communication, characteristics of marital communication, subjective well-being, psychoemotional states, anxiety, irritability, and internal tension