@article{article_311134, title={The Relationship Between Family Functioning and The Satisfaction in Marriage of The Parents Who Have Handicapped Children}, journal={Journal of Education, Theory and Practical Research}, volume={3}, pages={53–69}, year={2017}, author={Deniz, İbrahim and Göller, Levent}, keywords={Family functioning,satisfaction in marriage,handicapped children}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt; margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This research has tree main purposes. The purposes are to analyse firstly the relationship between family functioning and the satisfaction in marriage of the parents who have handicapped children, secondly, whether the levels of satisfaction in marriage of  the underresearched group become different according to gender or not and thirdly whether the levels of  family functioning of the underresearched grup become different according to gender or not. In performed scope of research by relational screening model, Family Assessment Device-FAD (Epstein, 1985) and Family Life Scale-FLC (Tezer, 1986) have been carried out to the 122 families who have handicapped children, being reached by convenience sampling model. In the direction of  the research’s first  aim, it is looked by pearson moment correlational analysis to the relationship between the points belonging to subscales of FAD problem solving, communication, roles, affective involvement, affective responsiveness, behavioral control, general family functioning of the parents having handicapped children and the points of the FLC, a significant relation betweens satisfaction in marriage and sub-dimensions of family functioning has been found. In the direction of  the research’s second aim, the difference between FLC points of the women and men in the underresearched grup has been viewed by the independent sample t test analysis and it has seen not to be any difference between satisfaction in marriage of the women and men. As to the third aim, the difference between the points of the general functioning (GF) of FAD of the women and men in the underresearched grup has been analyzed by independent sample t test, it has seen that there is no difference between points of general function of the women and men. The results  obtained has been discussed by linking the results of previous research and related literatüre.  <o:p> </o:p> </span> </p>}, number={1}, publisher={Sabri SİDEKLİ}