FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY
Year:2020 | Volume:6 | Issue:2|Papers Count:6

Spiritual/religious perfectionism is one of the determinants of couple adjustment. Spiritual health, that has a strong relationship with spiritual/religious perfectionism, also has a determinant role in couple adjustment. The aim of the present study was to investigate the corelation of spiritual/religious perfectionism spiritual health with levels of couple adjustment. Three hundred and seven married individuals (148 men, 159 women) from a community sample living in Tehran participated in this study. All participants were asked to complete Spiritual/Religious Perfectionism Scale (SRPS), Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS), and Golombok Rust Inventory of Marital State (GRIMS). Spiritual/religious perfectionism revealed a significant positive correlation with measures of couple adjustment. Spiritual health also revealed a significant positive correlation with couple adjustment. It can be concluded that both spiritual/religious perfectionism and spiritual health can be considered as determinants of couple adjustment. The findings also may support a new dimension of perfectionism, i. e. spiritual/religious perfectionism, separate from nonspiritual/nonreligious perfectionism. Teaching and encouraging spiritual/religious perfectionism within the educational systems from childhood in family and school can help implications of this kind of perfectionism to be achieved.

Marital satisfaction plays an important role in the couple's life expectancy. It has been found that this construct is related to the occupational and personality characteristics of the couples. Accordingly, in this study, the mediating role of work-family conflict in the relationship between proactive personality and marital satisfaction has been assessed. The sample consisted of 142 married men and women working in an organization in Isfahan who were selected by simple random sampling and responded to research measures including the Proactive Personality Scale (PPS), the ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Scale (ENRICH), and the Work-Family Conflict Scale (WFCS). SPSS software and correlation coefficient and mediation analysis with the Bootstrap method was used for data analysis. The result showed a positive relationship between proactive personality and marital satisfaction. Also, there were negative relationships between proactive personality and work-family conflict and between marital satisfaction and work-family conflict. The mediating role of work-family conflict was also confirmed. Based on the results, organizations can use employees and applicants with proactive personality in occupations that, due to their special nature, may create work-family conflict. Organizational staff can also teach conflict management techniques to employees with proactive personalities by conducting training courses, thereby reducing work-family conflict, and improve marital satisfaction.

Happiness is one of the most important factors that strengthens and maintains a marital relationship. The aim of the present study was to investigate the mediating role of forgiveness in the relationship between marital adjustment, life satisfaction and happiness. The present study was a descriptive correlational study. The sample of the present study was 300 married students (170 women and 130 men) of Pishva Branch Azad University. Research Participants were asked to collect data, complete the Spanier’ s Dyadic Adjustment Questionnaires (DAS), Rye’ s Forgiveness (FS), Diener's Satisfaction with Life (SWLS) and Oxford Happiness (OHQ). The results of the present study showed that marital adjustment, life satisfaction and forgiveness have a significant relationship with happiness. The results of the structural equation model showed that marital adjustment, life satisfaction and forgiveness have direct and significant positive effects on happiness, as well as marital adjustment and life satisfaction have direct positive and significant effects on forgiveness. The results also showed that the two variables of marital adjustment and life satisfaction have indirectly positive and significant effects on happiness. The findings of the present study were discussed in detail.

Marital burnout has been one of the most important problems for families in recent decades, and many factors contribute to its formation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of dark personality, self-differentiation and gender roles in prediction marital burnout. This research was a descriptive-correlational study. 210 married people (126 men and 84 women) selected and completed the questionnaires of dark triad personality (D3S), self-differentiation questionnaire (DSS), gender roles questionnaire (BSRI) and marital burnout questionnaire (MBS). The results showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between men’ s differentiation and marital burnout. In the case of women, the results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between Machiavellianism and psychopathy with marital burnout also femininity and androgyny was negatively and significantly correlated with marital burnout. The results of multiple regression analysis also indicated that self-differentiation, masculinity and androgyny (components of gender roles) had a significant role in predicting men’ s marital burnout. In the case of women, Machiavellianism and psychopathy had a significant role in predicting women’ s marital burnout. Based on the results, it can be said that by providing the necessary training in the field of promoting self-differentiation and gender roles and some personality traits, the rate of marital boredom among couples can be reduced.

Nowadays, expensive living, elevated expectations, and changes in gender roles have changed families' lifestyles to dual-career couples. Examining the challenges of this issue can affect the mental health of the community. The current research aimed to compare dual-career and single-career couples in dimensions of the coping strategies and the differentiation. The statistical population of the research included all practicing teachers in educational department of Kalat city among whom 146 couple (60 dual-career and 86 single-career couples) were recruited using available sampling method and responded to the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ) and the Differentiation of Self Inventory Questionnaire (DSI). The results of the research showed that there are significant differences between dualcareer and single-career couples in terms of the subscales the Coping Strategies (responsibility, problem solving, reassessment, and self-control). Also, there is a significant difference between the two groups in term of the emotional separation subscale of the differentiation. According to the findings, teaching Coping Strategies to couples, especially working couples can be recommended since these skills are as important as a shield against challenges and problems of couples' lives. Also, given the effect of differentiation in family system and its role in reducing family conflicts and the results of the research, there is a need for more research in this regard.

Desire for divorce is the degree of desire and interest of couples to separate and break the marital relationship. In studying the causes of divorce, consideration of individual and psychological causes, including desire for divorce is of particular importance. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of integrated Gottman-Emotional focused )GEF( and Strategic-Solution focused (SSF) approaches on decreasing desire for divorce in couples applying for agreed divorce. For this purpose, six couples (12 persons) were selected among all couples referring to counseling centers in Poledokhtar city in 2018. In this research, a single-case experimental design of a multiple baseline was used. The GEF and SSF treatment protocols were implemented in two to four stages of the baseline, eight to ten intervention sessions and three follow up steps. couples responded to divorce desire questionnaire (DDQ) (Rosbult et al, 1986). The results showed that the rate of improvement in the variable of desire for divorce in the group of GEF approach in the post-treatment and follow-up stages was 53. 04 and 65% and in the group of SSF approach, 42. 98 and 76/51%, in other words, both approaches had a significant effect on the goals of the treatment. Therefore, it can be concluded that in order to reduce the desire for divorce in couples applying for divorce, it is possible to use both integrated Gottman-Emotional focused and integrated Strategic-Solution focused approaches in treatment and consulting sessions.