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The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Johnson and Greenberg's emotion-oriented couple therapy on enriching intimacy and preventing couples' marital frustration. The method of this research was semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The statistical population included all the couples who were referred to counseling centers in the 5th and 6th regions of Isfahan City in 2023. An available sampling method was used to select the sample and 16 couples were randomly divided into two experimental (8 couples) and control (8 couples) groups. The experimental group received emotion-oriented couple therapy intervention in 9 sessions of 60 minutes, and the control group did not receive any intervention. The research tools included the marital intimacy questionnaire (MIQ; Oliya et al., 2015) and the Marital Disaffection Scale (MDS; Kayser, 1993). Multivariate covariance analysis was used to analyze the data. The results showed that by controlling the effect of the pre-test, there was a significant difference between the post-test of the experimental and control groups in marital intimacy and marital frustration. Based on the results of the present study, it can be said that Greenberg and Johnson’s couple therapy is an effective treatment for reducing marital frustration and increasing marital intimacy.

Infertility means the inability to conceive after one year of sexual intercourse without using contraceptive methods. The research was conducted to determine the effectiveness of emotional couple therapy on body image and marital intimacy in infertile women referred to infertility specialists in Ahvaz. The current research was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group. The statistical population of the research consisted of all infertile women referring to infertility specialists in Ahvaz city in 1402-1401. 30 infertile women (15 for each group) were randomly selected and replaced in two experimental and control groups by the purposeful sampling method. To collect data, the multidimensional body-self relations questionnaire (Kash and Hicks, 1990, MBSRQ) and the personal evaluation questionnaire of intimacy in relationships (Schaefer and Olson, 1981, PAIR) were used. The participants of the experimental group, during 9 sessions of 90 minutes, once a week, were subjected to emotional couple therapy. The data analysis was done using the statistical test of multivariate covariance analysis. The findings showed that with Controlling the pre-test effect between the post-test mean of body image and marital intimacy in the two test groups there is evidence of a significant difference in the level (P<0.05). According to the results of the research, the implementation of emotion-oriented couples therapy for infertile women can improve their body image and marital intimacy.

The present study was conducted to examine group solution-focused couple therapy on the compatibility, intimacy, and quality of life of women with addicted spouses admitted to addiction treatment camps. The present study was a semi-experimental design with a pre-test and post-test design with the control group. The statistical population of the study was made up of all women with addicted husbands in Rafsanjan city spring and summer of 2023. From this statistical population, 30 people were purposefully selected and randomly assigned to two experimental (n=15) and control (n=15) groups. The tools this research included Walker and Thompson's  Marital Intimacy Scale (1983) (MIS), Spanier's Marital Adjustment Scale (1976) (DAS), and Busby et al.'s (1995) Marital Quality of Life Scale (RADS). The experimental group participated in a solution-oriented group couple therapy program for 8 sessions, 3 sessions per week and each session lasted 90 minutes. The data were analyzed using multivariate covariance analysis. The findings showed that with the control of the pre-test, there was a significant difference between the mean of the post-test compatibility, intimacy and quality of married life of women with addicted spouses admitted to the addiction treatment camp at the level (P<0.001). According to the findings, it can be stated that solution-oriented group couple therapy can be suitable approach to increase marital intimacy and compatibility, and as result of these factors, it can improve the quality of married life in addicts and their spouses.

Marital infidelity, which is known as one of the social problems, can cause the collapse of the family or even cause a crime. This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the mediating role of marital intimacy in the relationship between midlife crisis and the tendency to Infidelity in middle-aged men.

This research was of correlation type with structural equation modeling method. The statistical population of this research consisted of all men aged 40 to 60 in Razavi Khorasan province. The research sample was selected from the current population using available sampling method, the tools included: The questionnaire was marital intimacy (Walker and Thompson, 1983), mid-life identity crisis (Rajaei et al., 2017) and tendency to infidelity (Bashirpour et al., 2017). The sample size of this research included 200 men. Data analysis was done using structural equation method and SPSS and AMOS software.

The results of the analysis indicated a direct and significant relationship between the midlife crisis and the tendency to commit marital infidelity. Also, there was an indirect relationship between midlife crisis and the tendency to commit marital infidelity, due to marital intimacy. Marital intimacy also had an inverse and significant relationship with the independent variable of midlife crisis. And finally, there was an inverse and significant relationship between the desire for marital infidelity and marital intimacy. Therefore, the assumed model has a good fit.

Considering the predictive role of midlife crisis and the role of marital intimacy in people's tendency to commit marital infidelity, Specialists should emphasize the need to provide appropriate training to couples who are exposed to these injuries.

Clarifying how the relationship between Perceived partner responsiveness (PPR) and Marital intimacy (MI) of individuals will differ at different levels of attachment styles and the extent and direction of this correlation in which of the attachment styles will be significant, was a problem. The aim of this study was to determine the moderating role of attachment styles in the relationship between PPR and MI. The research method was descriptive-survey in terms of data collection and correlational in terms of data analysis. The statistical population of this research was all of the married female nurses in Zanjan city in 2021. Convenience sampling method was used to select the sample and ultimately 317 nurses participated in this study. The scales used in this study were the Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationships (PAIR), Perceived Partner Responsiveness Scale (PPRS) and Experiences in Close Relationships– Revised (ECR-R). Pearson's correlation coefficient, path analysis and process analysis were used to analyze the dataset. Both in the simple model and in the model which encompasses interactive effects of the variables, the PPR had the greatest effect in explaining the variance of the dependent variable. After including the interactive effects into the model, only the interactive effect of PPR and attachment avoidance added approximately 2% to the explained variance of the dependent variable (β = .09, p < .05). Therefore, only avoidant attachment partially moderated the relationship between those two variables. The findings of the present study showed that insecure individuals are not necessarily evasive of intimacy and PPR is the construct that can provide the basis for the experience of intimacy in them.

The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of narrative therapy on family cohesion and marital intimacy of Conflicted couples. The study employed a semi-experimental design with a pre-test-post-test control group and a three-month follow-up. The statistical population included all couples referred to the Happy Life and Mobin Counseling Centers of Tabriz through to marital conflicts in 1402. Among them, 16 couples were selected through purposeful sampling and randomly divided into two groups (8 in the control group and 8 in the experimental group). The experimental group received educational interventions in narrative therapy, which was administered in 10 sessions and once a week. Data were collected using the Samani Family Cohesion Scale (FCQ, 1381) and the Bagaroozi Marital Intimacy Questionnaire (MIQ, 2001). Analysis of variance with repeated measurements was used to analyze the data. The study's findings showed a significant difference between the post-test mean of marital intimacy and family cohesion in the experimental and control groups (P<0.05). In addition, the results showed that narrative therapy was able to maintain its effect significantly over time (P<0.05). The findings indicate that narrative therapy can be used as an effective approach to increase marital intimacy and family cohesion.

The purpose of the present study was to analyze the path of marital intimacy based on attachment styles with the mediation of communication beliefs. The research method was descriptive-correlation based on path analysis. The statistical population of the research included all married women participating in family education classes in Abhar city, who were in the age range of 25-45. Using simple random sampling method, 260 people were selected as the sample size. Data collection tools included Walker and Thompson Marital Intimacy Questionnaire (MIS), Collins and Reed Attachment Styles (RASS) and Epstein and Idelson Communication Beliefs (RBT). The data of the questionnaires were analyzed with the help of SPSS version 27 and Imus version 26 and by path analysis method. The research results showed that there is a positive and significant correlation between secure attachment style and marital intimacy, and the relationship between avoidant and ambivalent attachment styles and relationship beliefs with marital intimacy is negative and significant. The results of path analysis showed that secure and ambivalent attachment styles affect marital intimacy both directly and indirectly through communication beliefs. Based on the findings of this research, it can be concluded that the relationship between attachment styles and marital intimacy is not a linear relationship and communication beliefs can play a mediating role in this relationship.

The present study was conducted to compare parents of children with cancer and parents of healthy children in terms of marital intimacy, parental self-efficacy, and emotion regulation strategies. The method of the present study was of comparative causal type. 146 parents (73 couples) were selected from among the parents with children with cancer who were referred to MAHAK hospital in 2020 and 2021 and 146 parents with healthy children were selected by sampling in Tehran. They completed the Marital Intimacy Questionnaire (MIS; Walker and Thompson, 1983), the parental self-efficacy scale (PSAM; Domka et al., 1996), and the cognitive-emotion regulation strategies questionnaire (CERQ; Granofsky and Kraich, 2006). Independent T-test and SPSS_27 software were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the mean of marital intimacy, parental self-efficacy, and the total score of adaptive strategies of emotion regulation strategies in the healthy group was higher than the group with children with cancer, (p<01/0) and the mean of the total non-adaptive strategies in the group with children with cancer was higher than the healthy group was (p>01/0). The results of the research showed that the disease conditions of children with cancer can hurt aspects of marital relations and some psychological variables of parents, and their cognitive coping with difficult conditions is somewhat different from normal children.

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation and marital intimacy with the quality of life in women with breast cancer.

This correlational study included female patients with stage 1 and 2 breast cancer who were referred to Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran in 1401 and 1402. A total of 151 women were selected through purposive sampling. Data were collected using the Garnefski Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (2006), the Barozi Intimacy Needs Questionnaire (1997), and the Sprangers Quality of Life Questionnaire for Breast Cancer Patients (1996). Data analysis was performed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis with SPSS software. 

The results revealed a significant positive relationship between adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and quality of life, and a significant negative relationship between maladaptive strategies and quality of life (p < 0.05). The components of marital intimacy showed a significant positive relationship with quality of life (p < 0.05). Multiple regression results indicated that cognitive emotion regulation strategies and marital intimacy significantly predicted the quality of life (p < 0.001).

The findings suggest that individuals with better emotion regulation strategies experience a higher quality of life. Additionally, increased marital intimacy in rational, sexual, and spiritual dimensions can significantly impact quality of life. Therefore, interventions based on emotion regulation, couple therapy focused on increasing intimacy, and group therapy with peer groups are recommended for managing emotions.

The aim of the present study was to determine the structural relationships of mindfulness and emotional literacy with marital intimacy through emotional expressiveness and emotion regulation. This study was conducted with a correlational method. The population of the study consisted of married university students in Tabriz city in the academic year of 2022-2023, and at least 2 years had passed since their marriage. Therefore, using convenience sampling, 384 couples were selected and to collect data, Brook and Butman Marital Intimacy Questionnaire, Iranian Family Psychological Functions Scale (IFPFS), Kentucky Mindfulness Questionnaire, King and Emmons Emotional Expression Questionnaire. EEQ) were used. Data were analyzed using the structural equation modeling method. Findings showed that the direct effect of mindfulness, emotional literacy, emotional expressiveness, and emotion regulation on marital intimacy was significant, and emotional expressiveness and emotion regulation could mediate the relationship between mindfulness and emotional literacy with marital intimacy (p<0.05). These findings have practical implications in clinical interventions, which are discussed in detail.

The structure of the family is constantly evolving, in which step-parents play a fundamental and undeniable role in the course of its evolution. The present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation in the relationship between resilience and sexual knowledge with marital intimacy in couples with stepchildren in 1401 in Kermanshah city. The current research is descriptive of the correlation type.

The statistical population includes all couples with stepchildren in the city of Kermanshah, which were selected using the accessible sampling method of 200 parents based on the inclusion criteria. To collect data, Walker and Thompson's (1983) Marital Intimacy Questionnaires, Granfsky et al.'s (2001), Conner and Davidson's Resilience (2003), Ann Hooper's Sexual Knowledge (1992) questionnaires were used. IBM AMOS 24 software was used for data analysis.

The results showed that resilience and sexual knowledge directly have a significant relationship with marital intimacy (p≥0.05). Also, the results showed that cognitive emotion regulation has a significant relationship with marital intimacy in couples with stepchildren (p≥0.05). Other results showed that cognitive emotion regulation plays a mediating role in the relationship between resilience and sexual knowledge with marital intimacy in couples with stepchildren (p≥0.05).

Based on this, it can be concluded that since troubled relationships and problems between couples affect children, paying attention to the intimacy of couples and teaching structures such as resilience, sexual knowledge, and helping to regulate emotions in couples can help create intimacy between couples. Be influential with the stepchild.

Emotional abuse is a type of interpersonal violence that causes the loss of intimacy and the separation of couples. Lack of marital intimacy along with low emotional maturity will increase the desire for emotional abuse between couples. Factors affecting emotional abuse have been investigated in previous studies, but no study was found that investigated emotional abuse based on emotional maturity and its differentiation with the mediating role of marital intimacy in the researched society.

The aim of the present study was to determine the pattern of structural relationships of emotional abuse based on emotional maturity and self-differentiation with the mediation role of marital intimacy.

The method of the current research was descriptive, of the type of structural equations. The statistical population of the research included all the couples who referred to counseling centers in Sanandaj in 2022, from which 222 people were selected through available sampling. The instruments used in the research included emotional abuse (Barahimi, 2008), emotional maturity Yashopersing and (Bahargava, 1991), self-differentiation (Skowron and Friedlander, 1998) and marital intimacy (Asoudeh and Timouri, 2017). Data analysis was analyzed using Pearson correlation method, structural equation modeling and partial least squares (SMARTPLS-3) algorithm and SPSS-23.

The results indicated the fit of the general research model with the experimental data. The findings showed that emotional maturity, self-differentiation and marital intimacy can directly predict emotional abuse (P< 0.001). Also, the indirect effect of emotional maturity (P= 0.001) and self-differentiation (P< 0.001) with the mediation of marital intimacy on emotional abuse was significant.

According to the findings obtained in the current research that low emotional maturity and self-differentiation in the long term causes a decrease in marital intimacy, and this eventually causes emotional harm and the occurrence of marital conflict among couples; Therefore, it is suggested to use methods of teaching emotional maturity and marital intimacy to reduce emotional abuse, and counseling and psychotherapy centers should pay more attention to these variables in predicting emotional abuse of couples.

Obsessive -compulsive disorder can lead to emotional and physical distance between couples. Excessive control over emotions prevents self-stimulation in the relationship and disrupts intimacy, which is a major problem for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. the present study was conducted with the aim of predicting marital intimacy based on object Relations and social cognition in couples with obsessive-compulsive symptoms.The current research was a regression type in terms of the fundamental objective and in terms of collecting correlational data.The statistical population of the present study was couples with obsessive-compulsive symptoms .Screening among 500 couples according to the entry criteria was conducted and 136 people were selected in an available manner.Pearson's correlation test and stepwise regression were used to analyze the findings.The results of Pearson's test show that object Relations and its subscales have a positive and significant relationship with marital intimacy at the 0.01 level, and social cognition does not have a significant relationship with marital intimacy, object Relations, and its subscales.Social cognition in couples with obsessive-compulsive disorder should be further investigated.On the other hand, By improving the quality of object Relations and its subscales, an effective step can be taken to increase the marital intimacy of couples with obsessive-compulsive symptoms

Self-esteem is considered as an internal attitude towards oneself and the determining factor of human behavior in the personal and social context, including marital relations and intimacy. The purpose of this study was to compare the marital intimacy of couples with fragile, damaged and secure self-esteem. The method of this research was causal-comparative. In order to carry out this research, 176 married men and women in Tehran were selected using convenience sampling and were asked to use Walker and Thompson's marital intimacy questionnaires (1983), Rosenberg's self-esteem scale (1965) and Nutin's Name Initial Preferences Task (1985) answered. Then, according to their explicit and implicit self-esteem scores, they were placed in one of three research groups, i.e., fragile, damaged, and secure self-esteem. Finally, the data was analyzed using the statistical method of one-way analysis of variance. The results of comparing the average difference of marital intimacy in three self-esteem groups showed that there is a significant difference between the fragile self-esteem group and the two groups of damaged self-esteem and secure self-esteem with a significance level of less than 0.01. In general, the results of this research showed that more marital intimacy is observed in married people with fragile self-esteem compared to the other two groups. It is suggested that more research be done to confirm and explain this finding more precisely.

The purpose of this research was to develop a model of attitude towards extramarital relationships based on attachment styles, emphasizing the mediating role of confrontational styles and marital intimacy. The current research is a correlational and socio-statistical type, including all people with extramarital relationships or the attitude of ordinary people to refer to welfare, relief committee and counseling centers of Qom province in 2021. 320 people were selected as the research sample using available sampling method. The sample of the research is the attitude questionnaire towards extramarital relationships (Whatley, 2007), adult attachment styles (Collins & Reed, 1990), confrontational styles (Lazarus & Folkman, 1988) and marital intimacy questionnaire. (Walker & Thompson, 1983) were completed. The data were analyzed by Pearson's correlation test and the research model was analyzed by the partial least squares (PLS) structural equation modeling technique and SPSS 27 and Smart PLS 3 statistical software. The results of the path analysis test showed that the research model has a good fit. Examining the mediation results showed that confrontational styles have a significant mediating role in the relationship between secure style, avoidant style and ambivalent style with attitudes towards extramarital relationships (p<0.05). The findings showed that the escape and avoidance strategy have a significant mediating role in the relationship between safe style and avoidant style with attitude towards extramarital relationships (p<0.05). The findings showed that positive reappraisal strategy has a significant mediating role in the relationship between safe style and ambivalent style, as well as ambivalent with attitude towards extramarital relationships (p<0.05). Also, the mediating role of marital intimacy variable in the relationship between safe, avoidant and ambivalent style was confirmed (p<0.05). It can be concluded that confrontational styles and intimacy play a mediating role in relation to attachment styles and attitudes towards extramarital relationships.

The aim of the present research is to examine the predictive model of family cohesion based on differentiation and attitude towards love: the mediating role of marital intimacy in married women. The research is descriptive-correlational, employing structural equation modeling. The study population consisted of all married women in the city of Isfahan who had been married for at least three years and were currently living with their spouses. A total of 225 individuals were selected as the sample using voluntary sampling. The data collection tools included the Fisher Family Cohesion Scale (Fisher et al., 1992), the Skowron and Smith Self-Differentiation Questionnaire (2003), the Hendrix and Hendrix Love Attitude Scale (1997), and the Thompson and Walker Marital Intimacy Questionnaire (1983), all of which have been validated. To achieve the objectives of the present research, initially, a descriptive analysis of the data obtained from the questionnaires was conducted. Subsequently, structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to reduce the independent variables. The results of the data analysis indicated that the second to fifth hypotheses of the research regarding the relationships between the study variables were confirmed. Based on these relationships, in total, 88% of the variations in the dependent variable (family cohesion) were predicted by the variables of the final model. Furthermore, according to the final model obtained from structural equation modeling, the independent variables of attitude towards love, marital intimacy, and differentiation had a direct impact on the family cohesion of married women.

marriage is a turning point in human life and one of the most important decisions of any person throughout life. Factors such as conflict and quarrel may threaten the health of living together. Methods of reducing healthrelated problems include unified trans-diagnostic therapy. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of unified trans-diagnostic therapy on marital intimacy, mental vitality and emotional expressiveness in women with marital burnout.

The design of the research was semiexperimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the research included women with marital burnout who referred to family counseling and psychological centers of Razi, Omid Farda, Hayat at Karaj city from September 23th, 2023 to March 19th, 2024, and their number reached 150. In order to select the sample size, 24 women with high marital burnout were selected based on the purposeful sampling method and based on the entry and exit criteria they were randomly assigned into two groups: a unified trans-diagnostic test group (12 people) and a control group (12 people). The experimental group received ten 45-minute sessions of unified trans-diagnostic therapy of Barlow et al. (2011) once a week.

the data were analyzed using the covariance analysis test in SPSS version 26 software. The P value was considered less than 0.05 meaningful. The results of covariance analysis indicated that unified trans-diagnostic therapy has a significant effect on marital intimacy, mental vitality and emotional expressiveness in women with marital burnout (001/0>P). The effect on the marital intimacy variable was 832/0% on the square of Eta coefficient, 567/0% on the mental life variable, and 731/0% on the emotional expressiveness variable.

therefore, the results of the present study indicate that unified trans-diagnostic therapy can lead to improved marital intimacy, emotional expressiveness and mental vitality in women with marital burnout. So this finding can be of interest to family counseling centers, psychologists, and couples.

The present study sought to propose a divorce risk reduction model based on marital intimacy, triangulation, and attachment with a focus on the mediating role of cohesion and adaptability in married people. This study was conducted using a correlational and path analysis design. The participants were 186 married people residing in Neka, a city in Mazandaran Province, Iran. The participants’ ages ranged from 22 to 40 years, and they were selected through non-random convenience sampling based on Klein's formula (1998). The criteria for enrollment in the study were being married for 2 to 5 years and the age range of 22 and 40 years. The instruments used to collect the data were the Marital Instability Index (Edwards, Johnson & Booth, 1987), the Intimacy Scale (IS) (Walker & Thompson, 1983), the Triangulation Questionnaire (Yousefi & Bahrami, 2012), the Adult Attachment Scale (Collins & Reed, 1990), and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale (FACES) (Elson, Portner, & Bell, 1985). The findings revealed that marital intimacy, attachment, adaptability, and cohesion have a negative and direct effect on reducing the risk of divorce (marriage instability). In addition, 32% and 24% of the impact of marital intimacy and attachment on reducing the risk of divorce (marriage instability) can be explained through cohesion. Furthermore, 58% and 32% of the effects of triangulation and attachment on reducing the risk of divorce (marriage instability) can be explained through adaptability. The data in this study showed a relationship between intimacy, attachment, and divorce risk reduction mediated by cohesion. In addition, triangulation and attachment can reduce the risk of divorce through the mediating role of adaptability.

The purpose of this study was to mediating role of early maladaptive schemas in the relationship between attachment style and marital intimacy. The quantitative - correlation method was used. The statistical population consists of all married women referring to Zargandeh neighborhood house in Tehran city in year 2020. In this study, according to convenience sampling method, 260 people by formula Kline (2015) were selected as samples and they were asked to marital intimacy scale of Fraley,  Waller and Brennan (2000), early maladaptive schemas scale of Young (2005) and attachment style scale of Walker and Thompson (1983). After exclusion of 11 outlier data was finally, 249 people were analyzed with using SPSS and Lisrel software was investigated. The proposed model had an acceptable fitness to the data. Overall, the results showed more the direct paths of were found significant (P<0/05). Also results showed, Also this model showed indirect path attachment style with marital intimacy through moderating role early maladaptive schemas in married women. The evaluated model has a good fit and is an important step in identifying the factors that are effective in marital intimacy in married women.

The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between personality differences and marital intimacy with the mediating role of emotional literacy in couples of Khomeini Shahr city. The method of this research was descriptive-analytical. The statistical population included all cohabiting couples in Khomeini Shahr city in 2022-2023, from which 220 people were selected according to the minimum statistical sample size for structural equations. The data collection tool was the Bagarozi Marital Intimacy Standard Questionnaires (MINQ, 2001); The personality differences were Myers-Briggs (MBTI, 1970) and alchemical emotional literacy (EL, 2011). The structural equation model (SEM) test was used to measure the fit of the model. The results obtained from the research model test showed that extroversion personality types; intuitive; sensory Emotional; intellectual Observer and judge have a significant effect on marital intimacy and emotional literacy (P<0.01). Also, the mediating role of emotional literacy through extroversion, introversion, emotionality, referent, and judgment was confirmed in marital intimacy (P < 0.05). The results showed that the research model is confirmed in terms of meaningful and fitting indicators, therefore, it seems that people with the personality traits of extroversion, introversion, emotional, referrer, and judge through emotional literacy have more intimacy in married life. They experience it themselves.