A study on the concept of a healthy family of today marriages: A study on the new married individuals

The aim of this research is to analyse that to what extend within the context of various factors, the couples married up to 5 years ,who can be described as newlyweds, and living in the modern societies show the healthy family concept. With this aim, the Family Evaluation Measure was conducted to the participants to evaluate the healthy family concept, and various independent factors (gender, age, marriage age, duration of marriage, educational background, the number of children, parental marital status is analysed in this research.In the correlationally scanning model, the study group consists of 200 people, 148 of them are female and 52 of them are male. They are living in Istanbul and married up to 5 years. The Independent Group t Test, Kruskall Wallis- H test, Mann Whitney U Test, ANOVA were usedto analyze the row data. As a result of analysis of variance, to detemine the source of variation, Scheffe test technique is used. Findings of the study have resulted in a significant difference between the functionalities of the participants families and the variables of age, marriage age, duration of marriage, educational status, number of children, economic situation, premarital flirting, birth order in families and parental marital status. In addition, the results of the participants gender of defining the functionalities of their families were not statistically meaningfull. Finally, the results obtained in the light of research findings were discussed and various suggestions were made within the framework of these findings.