The effect of the migration of the head of the family on the marital roles (a field study in some villages of the Gharbia Governorate)

The main objective of the research is to identify the impact of the emigration of the head of the family on the change in the wives’ performance of their marital roles. The study sample consisted of (264) married women and their husbands immigrant to work abroad from the villages of Nawaj, Damshit and Damshit Church of the Tanta Center, Gharbia Governorate, and used the following statistical methods for repetition: And the percentages, the arithmetic mean, the simple correlation coefficient (Pearson), the multiple correlation coefficient, the standard partial regression, and the level of change in the wife's performance of marital roles after the husband's migration. The most prominent results were the existence of a direct and statistically significant correlation at the level of 0.01 between each of the number of years of education of the husband, the social support of the respondents' family, the duration of the husband's leave and the degree of change in the respondents' performance of marital roles after the husband's travel, and the existence of a direct and statistically significant correlation at the level of 0.05 Between the degree of ambition and the degree of change in the respondents’ performance of marital roles after the husband’s travel. The following variables contribute. The number of years of the husband's migration, the motivation for achievement, the informal social participation, and the social support from the wife's family made a unique moral contribution of 58.2% in explaining the total discrepancy between the respondents in terms of their performance of marital roles after the husband's travel.