Masoome Yousefi; Mona Cheraghi; Leili Panaghi
Abstract
The family is of particular importance in different societies. Family Triad Model is a comprehensive model by Iranian culture. It helps to create a coherent family through three components, we-ness, flexible boundaries, and joining. This study was conducted to predict the sides of the family triad model ...
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The family is of particular importance in different societies. Family Triad Model is a comprehensive model by Iranian culture. It helps to create a coherent family through three components, we-ness, flexible boundaries, and joining. This study was conducted to predict the sides of the family triad model based on the couple’s early maladaptive schemas. This research was a correlation study and the statistical population consisted of all couples living in Tehran. 151 couples responded to the Family Triad Model Scale (FTMS) and short form of Young’s schema questionnaire (YSQ-SF). According to analyzed data, Schemas are classified into three categories based on the intensity of impact on the Family Triad Model. The first category is the spouses' ineffective schemas on the sides of the family triad model. In this category, if there is a schema in each of the spouses, the sides of the model are not negatively affected. The second category is the very effective schemas of spouses on the sides of the family and model. In the presence of these schemas in each of the spouses, almost all sides are negatively affected. The third category is schemas with different effects on the sides of the family and model. If schemas in this category are in each of the spouses, the family triad model is affected differently. The results showed that the existence of schema in husbands has a more destructive effect on the family triad model. The results of the study are predictive for the quality of marital relations and the quality of spouses' relations with main and in-law families. Therefore, these results are useful in family and couple counseling.
Zeinab Afshari; Fereshte Mootabi; Leili Panaghi
Volume 2, Issue 1 , November 2015, , Pages 59-70
Abstract
One of the most important factors affecting marital satisfaction is early childhood experiences with parents. These experiences have an important role in developing attachment and early maladaptive schemas. The present study was performed to investigate the mediating role of early maladaptive schemas ...
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One of the most important factors affecting marital satisfaction is early childhood experiences with parents. These experiences have an important role in developing attachment and early maladaptive schemas. The present study was performed to investigate the mediating role of early maladaptive schemas in relationship between attachment styles and marital satisfaction. A total of 333 participants (194 women and 139 men) completed the Hazan and Shaver's Adult Attachment Questionnaire (AAQ), Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ) and Enriching and Nurturing Relationship Issues, Communication and Happiness (ENRICH). The results showed that there is no significant relationship between avoidant-attachment style and marital satisfaction, but marital satisfaction had significant positive relationship with secure attachment style and significant negative relationship with ambivalent-attachment style. Also, the early maladaptive schemas mediate these relationships. Based on the results of the present study it can be concluded that individuals who have more secure attachment style develop more positive concept of self, as the result, they have less maladaptive schemas. So they follow more adaptive behaviors and less maladaptive behaviors in their marital relationships, therefore they will experience more marital satisfaction. In contrast, the individuals who have more insecure and ambivalent attachment style have more negative concept of self, therefore they own more maladaptive schemas about self, hence more maladaptive behaviors and less marital satisfaction.
