atefe taghizade chime; Somayeh Robat mili
Abstract
Marriage, as one of the oldest links between humans and the origin of the family, nurtures human character; as a small natural group, it has been the focus of many researchers. Among all the important relationships in human life, marital relationship is one of the most important relationships for human ...
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Marriage, as one of the oldest links between humans and the origin of the family, nurtures human character; as a small natural group, it has been the focus of many researchers. Among all the important relationships in human life, marital relationship is one of the most important relationships for human well-being. A desirable marital relationship not only fulfills the need for connection but also is an intimate and reliable relationship which creates a deep sense of connection and belonging. The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and marital satisfaction with the mediation of alexithymia and communication skills. The study’s method was of the correlational type and the statistical population was made up of all married students of Tehran universities who had been married for at least one year. Among the population, 212 students were voluntarily selected through the available sampling method. They filled out Enrich’s Marital Satisfaction Scale (EMS), Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (SES), Toronto’s Alexithymia (TAS-20), and Queen Dam’s Communication Skills (CSTR). The data was analyzed using the structural equation modeling method (df/X2 = 1.62, CFI = 0.975, GFI = 0.966, and RMSEA = 0.054). The results showed that communication skills had a positive and significant effect and alexithymia had a negative and significant effect on marital satisfaction. Communication skills mediated the relationship between self-esteem and marital satisfaction positively. In addition, self-esteem with the mediation of alexithymia could positively affect marital satisfaction (P < 0.05). It showed that self-esteem had a positive and significant relationship with marital satisfaction. Considering that marital satisfaction is one of the most important determinants of the efficiency and health of the family, paying attention to the factors affecting it can consider the physical and mental health of people as family members.
Behnaz Sadat Javadi; Gholamali Afrooz; Simin Hosseinian; Masood Gholamali Lavasani
Volume 2, Issue 2 , November 2015, , Pages 3-14
Abstract
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: Marital satisfaction is defined as the degree of correspondence between an individual current status<span style="font-family:;" dir="RTL" new="" b="" nazanin";="" roman";="" "times="" roman";"="" 9pt;=""> in couple relationships with his/her expected one. The objective of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of communicative skills and emotional interactions instruction on improving marital satisfaction with focusing on religious aspects. The study was a quasi-experimental research with pre-test, post-test with control group. The participants of the study were 20 couples which placed in the experimental (10) and the control (10) groups. The instrument of the study was Afrooz Marital Satisfaction Scale (AMSS). The experimental group experienced an 8 session, 1.5 hour instructional intervention which held once a week. The results demonstrated that there was a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of the experimental group while there was not in the control group. It should be mentioned that the effects of intervention remained for two months. The findings of this study point to the key role of communication skills and religious values in marital success and can be used by psychologists and family counselors.