The Relationship between Psychological Well-Being and Psychological Hardiness with Marital Intimacy in Married Women of Qom City

Marital intimacy plays an important role in family strength. Therefore, the aim of this study was investigate the relationship between psychological well-being and psychological hardiness with marital intimacy in married women.

The present study was cross-sectional from type of correlation. The research population was married women who referred to Sadra counseling center in Qom city in 2020 year with number of 240 people. According to Cochran's formula, the sample size was estimated 144 people who were selected by simple random sampling method. The research instruments were the scales of psychological well-being (Ryff, 1989), psychological hardiness (Lang, Goulet and Amsel, 2003) and marital intimacy (Walker and Thompson, 1983). Data were analyzed by methods of Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with enter model in SPSS-21 software.

The findings showed that psychological well-being (and all six components including self-acceptance, positive relationships with others, autonomy, environment mastery, purpose in life and personal growth) and psychological hardiness (and all three components including control, commitment and challenge) had a positive and significant relationship with marital intimacy in married women (P˂0.001). Also, the variables of psychological well-being and psychological hardiness significantly able to explained 53%, six components of psychological well-being significantly able to explained 67% and three components of psychological hardiness significantly able to explained 37% of the changes of marital intimacy in married women (P˂0.001).

The results indicated the positive and significant relationship of psychological well-being and psychological hardiness with marital intimacy in married women and their role in explaining their marital intimacy. Therefore, to promote marital intimacy can be improved the psychological well-being and psychological hardiness