Prediction of marital satisfaction based on attachment styles and loneliness feelings with the mediation of cognitive emotion regulation in women
Keywords:
loneliness, emotion regulation , attachment , marital satisfaction, married womenAbstract
The present study aimed to predict marital satisfaction based on attachment styles and feelings of loneliness with the mediation of cognitive emotion regulation in married women. This research was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive correlational. The statistical population of this research consisted of all married women of Karaj City in the spring of 2024, and 270 of them were selected by the available sampling method. The research tools include ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Scale (Fowers & Olson, 1993); UCLA Loneliness Scale (Russell, 1996); Revised Adult Attachment Scale (Collins & Read, 1990); Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Garnefski et al., 2001). The path analysis method was used to analyze the data. The results showed that marital satisfaction is predicted based on secure (P=0.001, Z=3.37), avoidant (P=0.001, Z=-3.12), and anxious (P=0.001, Z=-3.63) attachment styles. Z=3) by mediating adaptive strategies of cognitive emotion regulation in married women. Marital satisfaction is predicted based on secure (P=0.017, Z=2.37), avoidant (P=0.028, Z=-2.19), and anxious (P=0.017, Z=-2.36) attachment styles by the mediation of maladaptive strategies in married women. Marital satisfaction is predicted based on loneliness with the mediation of adaptive (P=0.020, Z=2.31) and maladaptive (P=0.017, Z=-2.36) cognitive emotion regulation strategies in married women.
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