Testing the Model of Marital Life Quality Through the Perception of Equity and Daily Spiritual Experiences by Mediation of Self Differentiation in Married Female Teachers

Subject Areas : Psychology

Leyla Sayahi ¹ , Malikeh Sayahi ²

1 - Instructor in Ministry of Educationa of Ahvaz Region One, Department of Educational Psychology, Ahvaz, Iran.
2 - Islamic Azad University Ahvaz Branch, Department of General Psychology, Ahvaz, Iran.

Received: 2021-04-25 Accepted : 2021-07-14 Published : 2021-09-23

Keywords: Marital life quality, self-differentiation, Equity perception, Daily spiritual experiences,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to investigate the model of marital life quality through equity perception, and daily spiritual experiences mediated by self-differentiation among married female teachers of elementary schools in Ahvaz. The statistical population included married female teachers of elementary schools in Ahvaz. The samples subsumed 200 participants whom were selected by multi-phase random sampling. The research was designed as correlational of structural equations type. To collect data Marital Quality Index (Nortoon, 1983), Measurement of Equity Perception (Perry, 2004), Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (Alipour et al., 2016) and Self-Determination Inventory (Skowron & Friedlander, 1998) were implemented. To analyze data structural equations analysis was applied. The results indicated that equity perception and daily spiritual experiences had direct significant impact on marital life quality. The findings also showed that equity perception and daily spiritual experiences had indirect significant impact on marital life quality through self-differentiation among married female teachers of elementary schools in Ahvaz. The evaluated model had an optimal goodness of fit.

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