The aim of this study was to develop a causal model of positive marital outcomes based on marital characteristics mediated by emotional expression and sexual intimacy in married female primary school teachers in Kermanshah in 2022. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and correlation and structural equations in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of the present study consists of all married female primary school teachers in Kermanshah in 2022. To select the sample size based on Cochran's formula from Kermanshah primary schools, 35 schools were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling and then 250 teachers were selected from these schools and given the Spinner (1976) Marital Adjustment Questionnaire, Nathan Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire. Et al. (1973) answered emotional expression and sexual intimacy using the Enrich Questionnaire, Marital Instability Index (MII) and the Marissa Characteristics Questionnaire by Chrisma Rosen-Grandon (1998). The results showed that the direct effect of marital characteristics on positive marital outcomes was 0.395 and also the indirect effect of this variable on positive marital outcomes through emotional expression and sexual intimacy variables was 0.149 and 0.167, respectively, which was at the 95th level of confidence. Percentages are significant. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is a positive and significant relationship between independent variables with mediating and dependent variables of research. Thus, emotional expression and sexual intimacy act as mediators of the relationship between positive marital outcomes based on marital characteristics, and in marital interventions, family counselors can be the target of therapy.
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