The effect of Marital Adjustment on Main Family Health Mediated by Mediators of Emotion Regulation, Conflict Management and Sexual Intimacy in teacher couples

Subject Areas : Family

Shahsavar Hashemi ¹ , Mokhtar Arefi ² , Keyvan Kakabraei ³ , Azita Chehri ⁴

1 - Psychology, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Counseling, Kermanshah Unit, Islamic Azad University, Iran.
3 - Professor, Department of Psychology and Counseling, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran.
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Counseling, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran.

Received: 2022-02-23 Accepted : 2022-06-25 Published : 2024-08-04

Keywords: emotion adjustment difficulty, main family’s health, marital adjustment, sexual intimacy, conflict management, teacher couples,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of marital adjustment based on the main family’s health with the mediating role of emotion adjustment difficulty, conflict management, and sexual intimacy in teacher couples. This study was descriptive-correlational in terms of nature, and was applied in terms of objective. The statistical population of the study was all teacher couples of Kermanshah city in academic year 2020-2021, among whom 300 were selected Stepwise random sampling. The research data were collected through Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Spanier, 1976), Main Family’s Health Scale )Hovestadt et al., 1985), Emotion Adjustment Difficulty Scale (Gratz & Roemer, 2004), and Enrich Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire (Olson et al., 1986), and data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling method using SPSS-24 and AMOS-24 software. The findings s showed that direct effect of emotion adjustment difficulty and marital adjustment, conflict management and marital adjustment, and sexual intimacy with marital adjustment (p≤0.01). The results of indirect pathways showed that the main family health pathways have a positive effect on marital adjustment through difficulty of emotion regulation, conflict management and sexual intimacy (p≤0.05).

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