Predicting Marital Adjustment through Attachment Styles with the Mediating Role of Communication Beliefs: The Path Analysis Pattern

Mirzakhani, Mohammad; Jafari, Alireza; Amiri Majd, Mojtaba; Bazzazian, Saedeh

doi:10.22059/japr.2024.372636.644877

Predicting Marital Adjustment through Attachment Styles with the Mediating Role of Communication Beliefs: The Path Analysis Pattern

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Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Mohammad Mirzakhani ¹

Alireza Jafari ²

Mojtaba Amiri Majd ³

saedeh Bazzazian ⁴

¹ 1. Department of Consulting, Faculty of Humanities, Abhar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abhar, Iran.

² Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Abhar branch, Islamic Azad university, Abhar, Iran.

³ 3. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Abhar branch, Islamic Azad university, Abhar, Iran.

⁴ 4. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Abhar branch, Islamic Azad university, Abhar, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22059/japr.2024.372636.644877

Abstract

The aim of the research was to predict marital compatibility based on attachment styles with the mediating role of communication beliefs. The research method was a correlational description. The statistical population of the research included all married women of Abhar city, 243 of whom were selected as the sample of the study by available sampling method and completed the marital adjustment scale (DAS), attachment styles (RASS) and communication beliefs. The data of the questionnaires were analyzed with the help of SPSS version 22 and Imus version 22 software and using the path analysis method. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between secure attachment style and marital adjustment, and a negative and significant relationship between avoidant attachment style and ambivalent attachment style and marital adjustment. The results of path analysis showed that attachment styles directly and indirectly affect marital adjustment through communication beliefs. Therefore, it can be concluded that the relationship between attachment styles and marital adjustment is not a linear and simple relationship and communication beliefs play a mediating role in this relationship. The findings of the present research can be of interest to counseling centers and family therapy counselors.

Keywords

Keywords: marital adjustment

Attachment styles

communication beliefs