جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « marital intimacy » در نشریات گروه « روانشناسی »

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 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 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 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.

This research aimed to compare the efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and short-term Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) on sexual intimacy in the wives of addicted men in Azadshahr City. The present study employed a semi-experimental design with a pre-test-post-test control group and a two-month follow-up. The statistical population included the wives of addicted men in Azadshahr City during the first three months of 2022. The wives were purposefully selected and randomly assigned to three intervention groups: Group 1 (15 participants receiving Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), Group 2 (15 participants receiving short-term Solution-Focused Therapy), and a control group (15 participants). Data were collected using the Sexual Intimacy Inventory (Bagarozzi, 2001). The results demonstrated that both Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and short-term Solution-Focused Therapy significantly increased sexual intimacy in the wives of addicted men compared to the control group (p < 0.05). This effect was sustained during the follow-up period. Furthermore, there was no statistically significant difference in the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and short-term Solution-Focused Therapy on sexual intimacy in the wives of addicted men (p > 0.05). Therefore, these two therapeutic approaches can be employed as sustainable interventions to enhance sexual intimacy in the wives of addicted men in healthcare and treatment centers.

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.

This study was conducted with the aim of comparing mothers and fathers of children with cancer in terms of marital intimacy, parental self-efficacy and emotion regulation strategies.

This study was of comparative causal type. Among the parents who referred to Mahak Hospital in Tehran in 2022, 146 people (73 couples) were selected as the current sample and questionnaire of intimacy-marriage (Walker and Thompson, 1983), parental self-efficacy (Dumka et al., 1996) and cognitive emotion regulation strategies (Garnefski & Kraaij, 2006) were completed. Dependent t-test and SPSS-27 software were used to analyze the data.

The results showed that the average of marital intimacy and parenting self-efficacy was slightly higher in fathers than in mothers, but this difference was not statistically significant (p<0.05). However, in the cognitive emotion regulation strategies, mothers' scores in the less important subscale of a number of adaptive strategies were higher than fathers' and the mean rumination of maladaptive strategies was higher in fathers than in mothers. Therefore, in the comparison of fathers and mothers of children with cancer, no significant difference was found in terms of marital intimacy and parental self-efficacy, there was only a difference in cognitive emotion regulation strategies, compromised strategies and non-compromised strategies between fathers and mothers, which could mean that the performance of both parents depend on each other and act very similar to each other.

Parents need psychological care because parents are with the child during the illness and their anxiety and behavior affect the sick child and the treatment process, and paying attention to the gender difference and the wishes of the couple can be a strategy to provide better services to the parents. And help the whole family

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of reality therapy on attachment, intimacy and marital satisfaction of couples with marital conflicts. The research method of the present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group design and a two-month follow-up phase and follow-up period in two months. The statistical population of the present study included couples with marital conflicts who referred to the Zharfa and Ravan Parvaz counseling center in the 3rd district of Tehran in the first six months of 2020. 30 couples (60 people) were selected through purposive sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (15 couples in the experimental group and 15 in the control group). After dropping, the final sample number was 25 couples (13 couples in the experimental group and 12 couples in the control group). The experimental group received reality therapy (14 sessions) during 14 weeks (90 minutes). The applied questionnaires in this study included marital conflict questionnaire (Barati, 1996), marital intimacy questionnaire (Bagarouzi, 2001), Adult attachment scale (Collins, Read, 1990) and marital satisfaction (Olson, 1996). The results showed that reality therapy is effective on the avoidant attachment style, anxious and secure, marital intimacy and marital satisfaction of the couples with marital conflicts. According to the findings of the present study, schema the reality therapy rapy can be used as an efficient approach to improve attachment, intimacy and marital satisfaction of couples with marital conflicts through focusing on the present time, avoid inconsistent criticism and training accountability.

The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of group counseling based on acceptance and commitment to family functioning and marital intimacy of women referring to a family counseling center in Qom City. The present research method was semi-experimental and pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population included all the women who were referred to the family counseling center in the city of Qom due to marital and family problems in the second six months of 1401. Using the purposeful sampling method, 30 people were randomly selected and placed in two experimental (15 people) and control (15 people) groups. The experimental group received group counseling based on acceptance and commitment in 8 sessions, each session lasting 90 minutes and once a week. Research tools included Family Functioning Questionnaires (FAD) by Epstein et al. (1993) and Marital Intimacy Needs (MINQ) by Bagarozi (2001). The research data was analyzed by multivariate covariance analysis. The findings showed that by controlling the effect of the pre-test, there is a significant difference at the level of 0.01 between the mean of the post-test of family functioning and marital intimacy in the two experimental and control groups. The findings show that group counseling based on acceptance and commitment can improve family functioning and marital intimacy in women with marital and family problems.