Emotional Schemas as Mediators of the Relationship Between Parental Bonding and Marital Intimacy

A large body of research shown that the initial parent-child relationship affects the quality of children's marital relationships; but the issue of the impact of that how the initial relationship with the parents affects on quality of the marital relationship has received less attention. Theurpose of this study was to investigate the mediator role of emotional schemas between parental bonding and marital intimacy. The research method was correlation and statistical population consisted ofarried people who lived in Yazd in 2019. Inclusion criteria was being married, being literate, living at least two years in a house with their partner, and that their parents hadn’t died before they turned 16. 426 individuals (227 female and 199 male) participated in the study. The me-thod of sampling was available via inter-net and paper questionnaires. Participants completed measures of Parental Bonding Inventory (PBI), Marital Intimacy Scale (MIS), and Leahy Emotional Schemas Scale. The collected data were analyzed using inferential statistics such as correlation and path analysis. The results showed that a number of emotional schemas mediated the relationship bet-ween parental bonding and marital intim-acy. Thus, given the role of emotional schemas for emotional experience and the use of emotion coping strategies, it can be said that these schemas play a mediating role in the relationship between parental bonding and marital intimacy by influen-cing individuals' perceptions of emotion (such as believing in uncontrollable and uniqueness of emotions to people) as well as using different strategies (such as worry, blaming others, rumination, and avoiding the situation) to cope with emo-tions.