Marital Alienation as Perceived by The Wife and Its Relationship to Both Her Productive Efficiency in Performing Household Tasks and the Social Phobia of Her Children

Document Type : Original Article

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Assistant Professor of House Management - Department of Home Economics - Faculty of Specific Education - Mansoura University

Abstract

The current research aimed to reveal the relationship between marital alienation as perceived by the wife with its interlocutors (marital silence, poor emotional communication and familiarity, isolation and the inability to participate in marriage) and the overall and both of her productive efficiency in performing domestic tasks and their axes (the desire to perform household tasks, The ability to perform household tasks, satisfaction with performing household tasks, innovation in performing household tasks) and overall, and the social phobia of her children in adolescence. The data was completed through the application of research tools (prepared by the researcher) represented in (the initial data form, marital alienation measure, the measure of productive efficiency in performing household tasks, the social phobia scale for children) on an intentional and purposeful sample of (274) wives, (274) of their teenage children. They belong to different socio-economic levels, from the city of Mansoura, the center of Sinbillawin, the center and the city of Mit Ghamr and some of its villages (Oulaila, Meet Mehsen, Bashla, Tanamil) Among the conditions for selecting the sample was that the wives be (not divorced, widowed, or abandoned), and that their marriage period exceeded ten years, and they had a son / daughter in adolescence from (15-17) years, provided that the son / daughter is not her only one. This research followed the descriptive and analytical method, by conducting appropriate statistical analyzes using SPSS program to draw conclusions. The search resulted in a set of results, the most important of which were: The existence of an inverse correlational relationship statistically significant between marital alienation as perceived by the wives of the research sample with its axes, and the total, and their productive efficiency in their axes and the total, and the existence of a positive statistically significant correlation between marital alienation with its interlocutors and the total of the wives of the research sample and social phobia of their teenage children. There are no differences between their average scores in each of the marital alienation, its axes, the total, their productive efficiency, their axes, and the total according to the place of residence. And the existence of significant differences between their average scores in each of the marital alienation, its interlocutors, and the total, according to the wife's work in favor of non-working women, and the existence of differences in their productive efficiency, their axes, and the total in favor of female workers. There is also a statistically significant discrepancy between their average scores in marital alienation in its interlocutors, and the total according to (the wife's age, the length of marriage, the family size, the educational level of the wife) in favor of the younger age group, the shorter marriage period, the larger family size, and the wife's lower educational level. There is no statistically significant discrepancy between their average scores in marital alienation according to the husband’s education level in (the axis of poor emotional communication and familiarity), and the presence of a statistically significant discrepancy between their average scores in productive efficiency in performing household tasks, their axes, and the total according to (the wife’s age, the duration of marriage, Family size) in favor of (older age group, longer marriage duration, smaller family size). There is no statistically significant discrepancy between their average scores in the axis (satisfaction with performing household tasks) according to the educational level of the wives, and there is no statistically significant discrepancy between their scores on the two axes (desire and satisfaction) in performing household tasks according to the educational level of their husbands. On the other hand, it was found that there are statistically significant differences between the mean scores of adolescent children in the research sample in social phobia according to (the gender of the children, the place of residence), in favor of female children, and the children living in the countryside. Brothers, family size). And the existence of a statistically significant discrepancy between their averages of social phobia according to (the educational level of the mother, the educational level of the father, the level of the monthly income of the family) in favor of the teenage children of mothers, fathers with a low educational level, and a low monthly income level.
In light of the previous results, the researcher suggested a number of recommendations: - Contribution of the mass media in providing educational dialogue programs, by hosting professors specializing in psychology and family counseling; To enlighten husbands about the essence of marital alienation, social phobia disorder and the negative effects of each of them. - Preparing counseling programs by bodies concerned with women (such as the National Council for Women and family guidance and counseling offices) to educate husbands and those who are about to marry on the basics and components of a healthy and successful marital life, and how to manage Problems. - Launching guiding convoys by civil and governmental associations for women through which the pioneers of the association, and the female assistants, enlighten the wives, and those who want to marry, ways to achieve productive efficiency in the performance of household work in order to improve their efficiency (in terms of quantity and quality), which has a great impact on the family and thus society.

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