Abstract:
The purpose of this research were to compare the marital quality between husband and wife and to study factors affecting marital quality of families with preschool children and husband working in industrail factories in Photharam District. The data were collected through the research instrument consisting of marital communication questionnaire, Marital Role questionnaire, and Marital Quality questionnaire, with reliability of 0.79,.78 and 0.90 respectively . the data were analyzed by using independent t-test and multiple regression. The results showed that: 1. The mean score on the marital quality of husband and wife were statistically significant difference(p<.05), that is , The highest was marital role and the next below were marital communication, and shift, respectively. 3. Some variables could be able to predict the marital quality of wife with ststistical significance (p<.05), that is, the highest was marital role the next below were marital communication, and wife employed outside of home, respectively.