the structural relationship between the family of origin’s health, emotional schema, emotion regulation and tendency toward marriage with the mediating role of self-differentiation in students

the present research aims to explore the structural relationship between the family of origin’s health, emotional schema, emotion regulation and tendency toward marriage with the mediating role of self-differentiation in students. the research sample comprised 266 male students of kharazmi university in the academic year ran from 2014 to 2015 who were selected through random cluster sampling. the research employed a non-experimental and correlational method. the research tools included tendency toward marriage questionnaire, family of origin’s health scale, self-differentiation questionnaire, emotional schema scale and emotion regulation scale. the results of path analysis indicated that, the research data are in full fitness with the proposed model. moreover, self-differentiation has a mediating role in the relationship between family of origin’s health, emotional schema and tendency toward marriage. therefore, shedding more lights upon the research results and its implication in premarital educational programs and developmental and therapeutic interventiosn of are crucial importance.