Structural model of Alexithymia in relation to Alexithymia and interpersonal forgiveness with mediating role of marital dissatisfaction in women

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Anesteh Amirkhosravi ^{1 *} , Hadi Bahrami ² , AbouTaleb Seadate Shamir ³

1 - PhD Student of Counseling, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Professor, Department of Counseling, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2021-06-27 Accepted : 2021-08-05 Published : 2022-02-20

Keywords: marital satisfaction, Emotional divorce, Emotional Dysfunction, Interpersonal Forgiveness,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to develop a structural model of Alexithymia in relation to emotional distress and interpersonal forgiveness with a mediating role of marital dissatisfaction in women referred to family counseling centers. The present study was a correlation with the structural equation model approach. From the statistical population of women referring to psychological clinics and counseling centers, 440 people were selected as a sample using a cluster random method. Guttman (1994) Alexithymia Scale, Bagby et al. (1994) Emotional Dysfunction, Pollard et al. (1998) and Enrich (1989) Marital Satisfaction Scale were used to collect data. Structural equation model was used to analyze the data. The results showed that all the indicators of model fit with the data have acceptable values. Emotional malaise (p≤0.01 and t = 4.773) directly and interpersonal forgiveness (p≤0.01 and t = 8.06) and marital satisfaction (p≤0.01 and t = 9.30) Inversely and meaningfully, it can predict emotional divorce. The results of the bootstrap test also showed that marital satisfaction has a significant mediating role in the relationship between emotional malaise and interpersonal forgiveness with emotional divorce. In general, it can be said that reducing the Alexithymia of women should pay attention to the components of emotional distress and marital dissatisfaction as accelerating factors of Alexithymia and the component of interpersonal forgiveness as a factor that reduces Alexithymia between couples. Be.