نشریه مطالعات اسلامی - ایرانی خانواده
سال سوم شماره 4 (پیاپی 10، زمستان 1402)

One of the topics that has occupied the minds of most thinkers and even the public in recent years is the issue of divorce. Currently, this phenomenon in Iran is a social problem and has created many problems for individuals and families facing divorce. According to the nature of the subject and the desired goals, the present research is correlational descriptive research. The current research population includes all women who referred to counseling centers in Tehran in 1402. From among them, 300 people were selected through targeted and available sampling. Using Nolen Hoeksma and Maro's rumination questionnaire, self-harm (masochism) questionnaire, Leahy's emotional schema standard questionnaire and Collins and Ray's adult attachment style questionnaire and data analysis, it was determined that there is a difference between secure attachment style and non-suicidal self-harm in Divorced women have a significant negative correlation. There is a positive and significant correlation between anxious insecure attachment style, rumination, neurotic defense mechanism and underdeveloped defense mechanism with non-suicidal self-harm in divorced women, and there is no significant correlation between avoidant insecure attachment style and non-suicidal self-harm in divorced women. As a result, considering the family problems in the society and the increase in the rate of divorce, identifying the influential and related factors and planning trainings based on these findings can be effective in preventing non-suicidal thoughts and acts of self-harm.

Marriage and the ease of doing it is one of the human needs, and this research was conducted with the aim of identifying the requirements for the realization of an easy marriage.

The study method is qualitative and based on the theme analysis approach. The studied population was elite women and female graduate students of Kermanshah province in 1402, and 12 of them were interviewed by theoretical and purposeful sampling, according to the principle of theoretical saturation. Collecting the required information was done with in-depth semi-structured interviews and their analysis was done with the Colaizzi's model.

The analysis of information led to the emergence of three general topics of prerequisites, bases and necessary conditions (with 4 subcategories of marriage goals, religious and human values, resources and facilities, economic and social factors and conditions), technical factors and executive (with 4 sub-categories of supporting young people, guarantees, marriage parties and holding ceremonies) and works and results of easy marriage (with 2 sub-categories of primary works and results and secondary works and results)along with 90 sub-themes and 218 general concepts became.

The examination of the requirements and solutions for the realization of easy marriage shows that the realization of this requires all-round cooperation and a jihad movement by public institutions and people, which is the basis for increasing the marriage rate on the one hand and strengthening the family foundation on the other hand.And it can be a useful model in various aspects of life, helping young people and families.

The aim of this study was to predict marital distress ‎based on emotional schemas with the mediation of ‎communication aggression in young couples. This ‎research was non-experimental and correlational. The ‎statistical population of this study consisted of all ‎young couples in the first and second regions of Urmia ‎city in the first three months of 2022. The sample size ‎was 186 people using Green's(1991) formula, which ‎was selected by simple random method. To collect ‎data, the Vismen et al.'s Marital Distress(2009), ‎Leahy's Emotional Schemas(2002), and Nelson and ‎Carroll's Communication Aggression(2006) ‎questionnaires were used. Data were analyzed using ‎structural equation method in AMOS. The results ‎showed that the effect of emotional schemas on marital ‎distress has a direct and significant effect. ‎Communication aggression has a direct and significant ‎positive effect on marital distress. The effect of non-‎adaptive emotional schemas on communication ‎aggression is positive, while the effect of adaptive ‎emotional schemas on this variable is negative. The ‎indirect effect of non-adaptive emotional schemas on ‎communication aggression is positive, while the ‎indirect effect of adaptive emotional schemas on this ‎variable is negative‏.‏‎ Therefore, marital distress can be ‎predicted based on emotional schemas and with the ‎mediation of communication aggression in young ‎couples.‎

The present research was conducted with the purpose of investigating the relationship between the Iranian-Islamic lifestyle and the relationship pattern with the quality of married life.

In terms of purpose, the present research is part of applied research, in terms of the nature of data, it is part of quantitative research, and in terms of descriptive collection method, it is of correlation type. The statistical population of the research included all married women working in culture in Nahavand city in 1402-1403 in the number of 682 people, 248 people were selected by systematic random sampling using Morgan's table. The research tools included Christensen and Salawi couple's communication patterns questionnaire(1984), Busby et al.'s marital quality scale (1995), Kaviani's Islamic lifestyle questionnaire(2013), and Christensen and Salawi's couple communication patterns questionnaire(1984). The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis.

The Pearson correlation results showed a positive and significant relationship between the quality of married life and Islamic lifestyle(r=0.799),and the mutually constructive relationship(r=0.232)and between the quality of married life and the relationship between expectation/aside. Acceptance(r=-248) and mutual avoidance(r=0.110)have a negative and significant relationship (p/>01).Also, multiple regression showed that Islamic lifestyle variables predict0.74%, 0.24% mutual constructive relationship, 0.22% negative expectation/withdrawal relationship and0.11%negative mutual avoidance relationship predict marital life quality.

From these findings, it can be concluded that working married women who choose the Islamic lifestyle and use constructive patterns of communication in their marital relationships will achieve a higher level of quality of life in their married life.

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.