Modeling marital conflicts based on alexithymia with the mediating role of anxiety sensitivity and sexual dissatisfaction in married female students at University of Guilan
Journal of Family Relations Studies
مقاله 2 ، دوره 4، شماره 12 ، فروردین 2024، صفحه 15-25 اصل مقاله (915.08 K )
نوع مقاله: Original Article
شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22098/jfrs.2024.13542.1142
نویسندگان
Azam Bakhshipour 1 ؛ Abbas Sadeghi* 2 ؛ Fatemeh . Hosseini 3
1 Master student, Counseling/ Family counseling, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Counseling /Educational Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
3 Assistant Professor, Counseling/ Analytic philosophy of education, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
چکیده
Objective: This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the structural relationship of marital conflicts, alexithymia, anxiety sensitivity and sexual dissatisfaction in married female students of University of Guilan.
Methods: The present research method was descriptive and correlational. A sample of 175 people was selected from the community of married female student in University of Guilan. To collect data, Toronto alexithymia TAS-20, anxiety sensitivity ASI-R, marital conflicts MCQ and sexual satisfaction ISS questionnaires were used. Data analysis was done using structural equation analysis method through Amos software environment.
Results: The results showed that the square of the multiple correlations 2R for the observed variable of marital conflicts was 0.45. This indicated that 45% of the variance in marital conflicts was explained by the variables of alexithymia, anxiety sensitivity, and sexual dissatisfaction. The square of the multiple correlations for the variable of sexual dissatisfaction was 0.05. This indicated that 5% of the variance in sexual dissatisfaction was explained by the variables of relationship alexithymia and anxiety sensitivity. Finally, the square of the multiple correlations for the variable of anxiety sensitivity was 0.58. This indicated that 58% of the variance in anxiety sensitivity was explained by changes in the scores of the alexithymia variable.
Conclusion: This study can be inferred that there is a significant relationship between alexithymia and anxiety sensitivity with marital conflicts and sexual dissatisfaction. It is hoped that different collection methods will be used in future studies. Also, this research can be carried out among different environments and in a larger and more diverse sample.
کلیدواژهها
Alexithymia ؛ anxiety sensitivity ؛ marital conflicts ؛ sexual dissatisfaction ؛ married female students
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