Developing a structural model for marital intimacy through love styles with the mediating role of interpersonal forgiveness

Subject Areas : Psychology

Fatemeh Nemati ¹ , mohammad khaledian ²

1 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2020-03-30 Accepted : 2021-05-05 Published : 2024-09-25

Keywords: interpersonal forgiveness, lovemaking style, marital intimacy.,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to develop a model for predicting marital intimacy based on interpersonal lovemaking and forgiveness styles. The present study was applied in terms of purpose and a cross-sectional survey in terms of data collection method. The research population consisted of married students of Payame Noor University, Saqqez branch who were studying in the academic year of 2018-2019. In this study, as many as 100 married students were selected by convenience sampling as the sample size. For data collection, the 85-item marital intimacy of parents and colleague’s questionnaire, the 42-item love styles questionnaire developed by Lee and the 25-item forgiveness questionnaire by Ehteshamzadeh et al. were used. As well, to test the general research model, the structural equation model with PLS software was used. The findings suggested that the lovemaking and forgiveness styles have an effect on marital intimacy. The value of test statistics was obtained using Sobel test at 2.74. Also, the structural model fit was done using the criteria of coefficient of determination (R2), redundancy and the GOF statistic. It was found that the coefficient of determination (R2) for marital intimacy was 0.735, amount of redundancy for marital intimacy 0.584, love styles 0.616 and forgiveness 0.556. Using the Sobel test (2.74), it can be said that interpersonal forgiveness has a mediating effect on the relationship between lovemaking style and marital intimacy using and affects the extent of this relationship. Also, blindfolding values for all research structures were found to be positive and greater than 0.35. It is concluded that interpersonal forgiveness has a mediating role and effect in the relationship between lovemaking style and marital intimacy and affects the extent of this relationship.

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