The Causal Relationship of Self-Differentiation and Marital Intimacy with Attitude to Crossover Relationships with Mediating Role of Marital Commitment in Women Referring to Psychological Centers

The purpose of this study was to investigate the causal relationship among self-differentiation and marital intimacy with attitude to crossover relationships with marital commitment as mediator in women referring to psychological centers of Ahvaz city. The statistical population of the research included all women referred to counseling centers in Ahvaz city during 1398. 111 women were selected as sample via purposive sampling procedure. The research method was correlational path analysis type. To collect data Attitudes toward Infidelity Scale of Vitely (2006), Self-Differentiation Inventory of Skorn & Schmitt (2003), Marital Intimacy Scale of Thompson & Walker (1983), Marital Commitment Inventory of Adams & Jons (1997) were implemented. To analyze data descriptive and inferential statistics such as Pearson correlation coefficient and path analysis were applied the results showed that all direct relationships were significant except the relationship between self-differentiation with attitudes to crossover relationships (p < 0.05). There was also indirect and significant relationship between marital intimacy with attitudes to crossover relationships with the marital commitment as mediator role (p < 0.01), but there was not an indirect and significant relationship between self-differentiation with attitudes to crossover relationships with mediating role of marital commitment(p>0.05).