Designing a model of marital procrastination based on the quality of sexual life and marital conflict with the mediation of psychological well-being of women applicants for divorce

The present research aimed to design a model of marital procrastination based on the quality of sexual life and marital conflict with the mediation of the psychological well-being of women applicants for divorce in Ahvaz. The research design was correlational research of the path analysis type. The statistical population includes all women who applied for divorce in Ahvaz and were referred to the divorce courts and legal aid centers in the second 6 months of 2021. For this purpose, 250 people from the statistical population were selected as a sample by the purposeful sampling method. To collect data from the Marital Procrastination Questionnaire(MPQ) (Ghorbani Nejad, 2011), the Marital Conflict Questionnaire(MCQ) (Samani, 2006), the Sexual Quality Of Life-Female Questionnaire(SQOL-F) (Simond et al., 2005) and the Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWBS) (Reif & Keyes, 1995) were used.  For analysis data, path analysis was used. The results showed that the model has a flattering fit. Also, the quality of sexual life, marital conflict, and psychological well-being directly affect the marital procrastination of women applying for a divorce. The results indicate an indirect relationship between the quality of sexual life and marital conflict on marital procrastination with the mediation of the psychological well-being of women seeking a divorce. It should be noted that the acceptable significance level to confirm or reject the hypotheses was also considered P<0. 05. Therefore, paying attention to the quality of sexual life, marital conflict, and psychological well-being is very important in order to reduce marital procrastination.