Yekta Fatemeh Forouzeh, Yaghoubi Hamid, Ghomian Soheila, Gholami Fesharaki Mohammad
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Iran J Psychiatry. 2022 Jan;17(1):72-83. doi: 10.18502/ijps.v17i1.8051.
The present study evaluated the model of mediating variables concerning effectiveness of mindfulness in improving women's marital satisfaction. This study was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and control groups. The statistical population included every married woman in Tehran in the year 1396 (2017). The research sample was composed of 60 married women with moderate marital satisfaction. They were chosen using the convenient sampling technique and were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. The experimental group attended 8 sessions of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and the control group was on a waiting list. Both groups answered the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), Interpersonal Reactivity Inventory (IRI), Needs for Intimacy Questionnaire of Bagarozi, Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) and the Couple Satisfaction Index (CSI) before and at end of intervention. The data were analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using PLS-22 and SPSS-23. In the initial hypothetical model, which included the direct effect of mindfulness on marital satisfaction and its indirect effects through psychological distress, emotion regulation, empathy, marital intimacy and positive emotion on marital satisfaction, coefficients of all model paths were significant at 95% level except direct path of mindfulness to marital satisfaction (t = 1.14), marital intimacy to marital satisfaction (t = 0.48) and positive affection to marital satisfaction (t = 1.75). After removing the non-significant paths, the model was tested again and the model fit index (GOF = 0.47) was a very good fit for the modified overall model. The results identified mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention was effective in enhancing marital satisfaction through reducing psychological distress and improving emotion regulation and empathy.
本研究评估了正念在提高女性婚姻满意度方面的中介变量模型。本研究为准实验性研究，设有前测、后测和对照组。统计总体包括2017年德黑兰的每一位已婚女性。研究样本由60名婚姻满意度中等的已婚女性组成。她们采用便利抽样技术选取，并随机分配到对照组和实验组。实验组参加了8节基于正念减压疗法（MBSR）的课程，对照组则在等待名单上。两组在干预前和干预结束时都回答了五因素正念问卷（FFMQ）、抑郁、焦虑和压力量表（DASS）、情绪调节困难量表（DERS）、人际反应指数（IRI）、巴加罗齐亲密需求问卷、正负性情绪量表（PANAS）和夫妻满意度指数（CSI）。数据通过使用PLS - 22和SPSS - 23的结构方程模型（SEM）进行分析。在初始假设模型中，该模型包括正念对婚姻满意度的直接影响及其通过心理困扰、情绪调节、同理心、婚姻亲密感和积极情绪对婚姻满意度的间接影响，除了正念对婚姻满意度的直接路径（t = 1.14）、婚姻亲密感对婚姻满意度的路径（t = 0.48）和积极情感对婚姻满意度的路径（t = 1.75）外，所有模型路径的系数在95%水平上均显著。去除不显著路径后，再次对模型进行测试，模型拟合指数（GOF = 0.47）对修正后的总体模型拟合得非常好。结果表明，基于正念的减压干预通过减轻心理困扰、改善情绪调节和同理心，在提高婚姻满意度方面是有效的。
