caa a22 4500 445849150 CHVBK 20180317145408.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10597-011-9405-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10597-011-9405-x A Comparison Study of Psychological, Family Function Marital and Life Satisfactions of Polygamous and Monogamous Women in Jordan [Elektronische Daten] [Alean Al-Krenawi, John Graham, Fakir Al Gharaibeh] This study surveyed a 2009 convenience sampling of 199 women, 93 of whom were first (or senior) wives in polygamous marriages and 106 were wives in monogamous marriages. We deployed the McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD), ENRICH marital satisfaction questionnaire, SCL-90 mental health symptoms checklist, Rosenberg self-esteem (SE) scale, and Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin life satisfaction scale, a basic sociodemographic scale, including attitudes towards polygamy. Women from polygamous families experienced more problems in family functioning, marital relations, and reported low self-esteem, less satisfaction with life, and more somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, paranoid ideation, psychoticism and their general severity index was higher (GSI). More women in polygamous marriages agreed with the practice of polygamy, as compared to their monogamous counterparts. The conclusion considers implications for mental health practice, policy, and further research. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Mental health nationallicence Polygamy nationallicence Marital satisfaction nationallicence Family function nationallicence Self-esteem nationallicence Women nationallicence Al-Krenawi Alean School of Social Work, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Box 4200, A1C 5S7, St. John's, NL, Canada aut Graham John Murray Fraser Professor of Community Economic Development, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada aut Al Gharaibeh Fakir Social Work Department, Al Balqa Applied University, P.O. Box 517, 11947, Amman, Tareq, Jordan aut Community Mental Health Journal Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 47/5(2011-10-01), 594-602 0010-3853 47:5<594 2011 47 10597 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-011-9405-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-011-9405-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Al-Krenawi Alean School of Social Work, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Box 4200, A1C 5S7, St. John's, NL, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Graham John Murray Fraser Professor of Community Economic Development, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Al Gharaibeh Fakir Social Work Department, Al Balqa Applied University, P.O. Box 517, 11947, Amman, Tareq, Jordan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Community Mental Health Journal Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 47/5(2011-10-01), 594-602 0010-3853 47:5<594 2011 47 10597 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer