Model test of direct and indirect effects of approach motives, self-compassion and mindfulness on sexual intimacy of married nurses: the mediating role of alexithymia

The purpose of the present study was to model test of direct and indirect effects of approach motives, self-compassion and mindfulness on sexual intimacy of married nurses according to the roleof alexithymia.

The statistical population includes all married nurses of Ilam in the first half of 1402, from which 240 nurses were selected as a sample using available sampling. To collect data from the Couples Sexual Intimacy Questionnaire (CSIQ), Sacrifice Motives Questionnaire (SNQ), Freiburg Mindfulness Questionnaire (FMI-SF), Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) and The Toronto Ataxia Scale (TAS) were used. In the present study, the evaluation of the proposed model was done using structural equation modeling, and the bootstrap method (AMOS-24 software) was used to test indirect relationships.

According to the results and according to the fit indices, the proposed model has an acceptable fit with the data, and the direct paths of approach motives, self-compassion, and mindfulness to ataxia and ataxia to sexual intimacy were statistically significant, as well as indirect paths. Welcoming motives, self-compassion and mindfulness of sexual intimacy through alexia were statistically significant.

Based on the findings, it can be concluded that alexia has a mediating role between predictor variables approach motives, self-compassion and mindfulness) and criterion (sexual intimacy). In other words, the approach motives, self-compassion and mindfulness can cause sexual intimacy in nurses by reducing dyslexia.