Relationship of Dark Triad of Personality, Sexual Assertiveness and Cognitive Flexibility with Marital Burnout in Female Nurses

Introduction: Family is the smallest and most important social system and marital burnout has a very negative impact on the foundations of the family. Therefore, present research aimed to investigate the relationship of dark triad of personality, sexual assertiveness and cognitive flexibility with marital burnout in female nurses. Methods: This research was a cross-sectional from type of correlation. Research population was female nurses of governmental hospital of Ahvaz city in 2017 year which from them 200 people selected by simple sampling method. The research tools included the questionnaires of dark triad of personality (Jonason & Webster, 2010), sexual assertiveness (Hurlbert, 1992), cognitive flexibility (Dennis & VanderWal, 1994) and marital burnout (Pines, 1996). Data analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with stepwise model methods and with SPSS-21. Results: The findings showed that dark triad of personality included narcissism (r=0/289), psychopathy (r=0/231) and machiavellism (r=0/175) had a positive and significant relation with marital burnout of female nurses and sexual assertiveness (r=-0/426) and cognitive flexibility (r=-0/380) had a negative and significant relation with marital burnout of female nurses. Also, dark triad of personality, sexual assertiveness and cognitive flexibility significantly could predicting 35/7 percent of variance the marital burnout in female nurses (R2=0/357). Conclusions: The results indicate the importance of dark triad of personality, sexual assertiveness and cognitive flexibility in predicting the marital burnout in female nurses. Therefore, counselors and therapists in order to reduction of marital burnout in female nurses can increase the rate of sexual assertiveness and cognitive flexibility and decrease the rate of dark triad of personality through workshops.