Examination of the relationship of marital satisfaction with childhood traumas and mindfulness levels of married individuals

This research was conducted to examine the relationship between childhood traumas and conscious awareness of married individuals and marital satisfaction, explain childhood traumas and conscious awareness levels affecting married individuals' martial insaicity and determine whether they show significant difference according to the determined sociodemografic chracteristics. The universe and sample of the research formed by 330 married individuals who were in the 21-60 age range living in Ataşehir distinct of İstanbul. Data collection tools are ''Socio Demografic Information Form, Scale of childhood traumas, scale of conscious awareness , marriage life scale .When the Pearson Correlation of the total scores of participants' mindfulness ,marital insatiation and childhood traumas was examined, mindfulness has a weakly positive relationship with marriage satisfaction as childhood traumas have a weakly negative and significant relationship with it. Also marriage has a weakly negative relationship with childhood traumas. In summary, as marital satisfaction increases, mindfulness increases and childhood traumas increase as conscious awareness decreases. It has been also observed that childhood traumas increase as marital satisfaction decreases. The research aims to be a resource for further studies on marital satisfaction childhood traumas, conscious awareness.