Social ties are powerful predictors of late-life health and wellbeing. Although many adults maintain intimate partnerships into late life, little is known about mental models of attachment to spouses and how they influence aging. Eighty-one elderly heterosexual couples (162 individuals) were interviewed to examine the structure of attachment security to their partners and completed measures of ...

BACKGROUND Patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) may report difficulties with sexual function and marital relationship. However, there is a dearth of studies focusing on the association between these aspects in IHD patients. The present study sought to assess the association between sexual function and marital relationship among IHD patients and also test the effect modification of gender,...

the purpose of this study was to determine the relationships among attachment styles (avoidant, secure and ambivalent), emotional intelligence, marital satisfaction and marital conflict in married female teachers of elementary schools in ahvaz. in this descriptive-correlational study, the sample consisted of 250 married female teachers who were selected through multi-stage random sampling. to g...

Introduction: This study aims at analyzing the effectiveness of emotionally focused couple therapy on marital conflicts and tendency to get divorce in couples who have referred to counseling centers in Bandar Abbas County. Correspondence: Fatemeh Solymani Ahmadi, MSc. Department of Family Counseling, Hormozgan Un...

Background: Marital infidelity in our country is increasing and a few studies have been done on the factors influencing marital satisfaction afterwards. Therefore, in this study, we decided to determine the role of psychosocial factors affecting marital satisfaction in couples after marital infidelity. Method: This analytical-cross-sectional study was conducted on 235 couples who betrayed and ...

Divorce is a stressful event often combined with spouse conflict which significantly affects the way children experience consequences of family reorganization. Various factors contribute to impact divorce on child development, one most decisive being quality parental relationship prior to, during and after divorce.
 The article addresses main question how spouses’ process intertwined child...

Background & aim: Birth of the first child is one of the major life events for every woman. This event can make extensive changes in couple’s life, which lead to the reduction of marital satisfaction or incidence of conflicts in wifehood and parenthood. Regarding this, the present study was conducted to determine the relationship between transition to parenthood and ma...