University graduate married couples' marriage satisfaction and their perception of sexuality facts

World's population has been increasing day by day and the resources have been diminishing. Compared to 1980's, world's usage of energy has been doubled. In this The aim of this research, to analyze university graduate married couples' marriage satisfaction in some variables and to make metaphor analysis on their perception of sexuality facts. Mixed method is used in the research. First the quantitative data is collected with the help of the purposive sampling and in quantitative research methods of scanning method and than the qualitative data is collected with the help of the purposive sampling and in qualitative research methods of metaphor analysis. This mixed method is named as "explanatory sequential design" in literature. 208 female and 75 male, in total 283 marriage couple, constitutes the qualitative sample. 45 female and 30 male, in total 75 people, constitutes the quantitative sample, which also help on collecting quantitative sample and also volunteered on qualitative sampling. "Marriage Satisfaction Scale" who is enhanced by Çelik and Yazgan İnanç (2009) is used on quantitative sampling. "Sexuality like…; because…" is wanted to be completed as the qualitative sample to assess sample's metaphors on their mind about sexuality. On the research, based on the qualitative finding, it is found that the university graduate couple's marriage satisfaction changes meaningfully by their sex, age, marriage age, whether they have kids or not, and their income. By looking on marriage satisfaction scale, according to sex, it is found that sexual satisfaction is higher on males than females. On age variable, 35-39 aged individuals' marriage satisfaction family sub-dimension score is higher than other aged individuals. According to marriage age, 25-29 aged individual's marriage satisfaction family sub-dimension score is higher than the individuals who get married in older ages. Marriage satisfaction family sub-dimension score of couples who have kids are higher than who don't have. Lastly, high income couples' marriage satisfaction family sub-dimension score is higher than couples who have middle income. On the other hand, there isn't any meaningful result is found on education levels and the duration of marriage. Based on the metaphor analysis on qualitative sampling, it is observed that out of 75, 54 meaningful metaphors about sexuality are created. These metaphors are collected on 4 different conceptual categories; (food-drink, action, intangible terms, term/object). By looking on the metaphors, it is observed that metaphors, which are created by males, are more positive that the females' and also older aged married couples metaphors' are more positive than other samples'. High-income individuals' metaphors are more positive than middle-income individuals'. Lastly, couples that have kids, have more positive metaphors about sexuality, which don't have any kid. According to qualitative and quantitative outcomes, some suggestions are made about related subjects. All quantitative outcomes are explanatory and consistent with qualitative outcomes. Besides, it is thought that, different types of research on related topic can contribute the field.