couples' marital expectations

The present study aimed to predict family performance based on life skills, locus of control, and marital expectations of couples in working women. The method of the present study was predictive correlation. In the present study, the statistical population consisted of all women working in the Ministry of Labor, Cooperatives, and Social Affairs of Tehran during the period 2021-2022, which, according to the department's report, had 541 employees. The sample size was 225 women working in the Ministry of Labor, Cooperatives, and Social Affairs of Tehran, using the Morgan and Krejcie table proportional to the population. This sample was selected by convenience sampling. The instruments in this study were the Epstein, Baldwin, and Bishop Family Performance Questionnaire (1980), Saatchi Life Skills (2010), Rutter Locus of Control (1966), and Omidvar Marital Expectations (2007). Pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple regression tests were used to analyze the data using SPSS-24 software. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between life skills and family performance (r= 0.365), between locus of control and family performance (r= 0.446), and between couples' marital expectations and family performance (r= 0.254). Also, life skills explained 36% of the variance in family performance, 22% of the variance in locus of control, and 44% of the variance in couples' marital expectations.