Background: The quality of marital relationship is affected by several factors. This study aimed to examine the role of personality factors in the relationship between family-of-origin health status and marital adjustment.  Methods: This study is of descriptive method and the design is correlational based on path analysis. The study population consisted of all married men and women in Qazvin w...

AIM The present descriptive analysis of breast-cancer women with mastectomy surgery was conducted to assess husband partner compatibility and level of loneliness during the post-surgery period. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was carried out in Ondokuz Mays University, Medical Faculty surgical clinic. A sample of 48 women with mastectomy and 44 husbands were included in the study. A questionn...

In this study, we examined associations among romantic attachment anxiety and avoidance, positive and negative religious coping, and marital adjustment in a community sample of 81 heterosexual couples. Multilevel modeling (MLM) for the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM; Cook & Kenny, 2005) was used to analyze data from both spouses. Romantic attachment avoidance was associated with less...

Background: Infertility is one of the important components of reproductive Health that has some effects on physical and psychological aspects of couple's life. Infertile women are concerned about their sexual and physical health. It is even possible that using and evaluation of assisted reproductive techniques have negative effects on women feelings about the sexual value and marital relat...

The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between specific coping strategies and problem-solving/communication behaviors in close relationships. The sample consisted of 72 couples who completed the Dyadic Adjustment Scale and the Marital Coping Questionnaire and who also participated in a filmed 30-minute discussion where they had to solve a relational problem. Observ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this investigation is to determine the efficacy of emotionally focused couples therapy (EFT-C) on enhancement of marital adjustment in infertile couples. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a semi-experimental study with a pre- and post-test design. We selected 30 infertile couples (60 subjects) by purposive sampling. Couples were randomly assigned to two groups, sample a...

BACKGROUND Body image is related to cognitive, emotional, and physical aspects of women's life. Therefore, it is expected to have an important role in women's sexual health and marital adjustment too. This issue seems to be salient in infertile women who suffer from psychological consequences of infertility. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship of body image with sexual func...

Background: Marital satisfaction is the correspondence between the expectations a person has of marital life and what one might experience in his life.  The present study seeks to compare the marital satisfaction, marital intimacy, sexual satisfaction, and marital adjustment of married persons (various age difference) with age and duration of marriage control. Methods: It is a causal-comparati...