The examination of the relationship between family communication patterns, self concept and marital adjustment

Objective: In this study; it is aimed to reveal the relationship of married individuals, family communication patterns and autonomous-relattional self-levels with marital adjustment. At the same time, it was investigated whether there was a relationship between the participants' family communication patterns, marriage adjustment process and self level and some socio-demographic variables. Method: 347 participants were reached in this study. The "Sociodemographic Information Form" was used to learn demographic information of married couples that cannot be obtained by scales. Data were collected by using "The Family Autonomous-Related Self-Scale", "Family Communication Patterns Scale", and "Marriage Adjustment Scale". Results: There was no significant relationship between marital adjustment and gender. It was determined that there was a significant relationship both between marital adjustment and educational status; and marital adjustment and marriage decision. There was no statistically significant relationship between adaptation orientation and gender, and adaptation orientation and education level, among the sub-scales of family communication patterns. A statistically significant relationship was found between family communication patterns and marriage decision. When the relationship between family communication patterns and age is examined, positive relationship was found between adaptation orientation and age. A negative relationship was found between dialogue orientation and age. Results of the relationship between self-level and educational level showed that, there was not a statistically significant relationship both between autonomous self-level and educational level; and relattional self-level and educational level. The analysis of the relationship between self types and age was showed that, there was a negative relationship between autonomous relatedness self type and age. Conclusion: The results showed that the communication patterns brought by the married individuals from the root family predicted the satisfaction and reconciliation scores of the marriage adjustment subscales with the autonomous-relattional self level significantly. Key Words: autonomous self, relattional self, autonomous-relatedness self, marital adjustment, family communication patterns,