Journal of Counseling Research

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Abstract

Objective: the objective of present study is examining the causal relationship between attachment styles with marital commitment by mediation of differentiation of self and guilty feeling in married female students of Ahvaz city. Methodology: participants in this study were in total 211 married female students of Ahvaz city, which were selected using available purposive sampling. The instruments used in this study wereBehavioral Style Questionnaire (BSQ), Marital Commitment Questionnaire (MCQ), differentiation of selfInventory (DSI), conscious emotionsInventory. Evaluation of the proposed model was carries out using path analysis method. In order to test indirect relationships, boot-strap method was used. Findings: the results showed that from among 16 direct paths, 4 paths of secure attachment style to differentiation of self,  insecure attachment style to guilty feeling, guilty feeling to moral commitment and differentiation of self to structural commitment didn't become significant.Also, the results showed that all the indirect effects of copying styles (secure and insecure) and marital commitment with mediation of differentiation of self and guilty feeling became significant. On the other hand, indirect effects of secure attachment style and moral commitment with mediation of guilty feeling and indirect effects of secure and insecure attachmentwith structural commitment with mediation of differentiation of selfdidn't become significant. Better fitting thorough eliminating insignificant paths of secure attachment style to differentiation of self, insecure attachment style with guilty feeling, guilty feeling with moral commitment and differentiation of self with structural commitment were obtained. In this study, significance level was α=0.05. Conclusion: in a marital relationship, the level of differentiation and guilty feeling in either party of a couple and attachment style formed in individuals is effective for their marital commitment in their married lives.

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Aim: Successful marriage is the foundation of establishing a stable family. This study was carried out to provide a successful marriage paradigm. Methods: The study was conducted through a qualitative methodology applying grounded theory. The participants of the study were all couples who were living in city of Ahvaz during 2019. To select the participants in this study, a purposeful sampling was administered and as the study advanced, sampling of the desired cases continued until theoretical saturation was reached. At the end, 22 individuals (11 couples) were interviewed using open-ended or structureless questions.  Findings: In grounded theory, data analysis consists of coding the data. Using open coding resulted in 83 initial codes, while using axial coding produced 23 main categories. The  concept of successful marriage was elicited as a central, transparent and explicit category. Conclusion: We can draw a conclusion that a successful marriage is hinged on a thorough and comprehensive transparency of the issues involved in a marital relationship. That is to say either couple expresses openly what they have experienced, not leaving anything vague and ambiguous so that they don’t get the urge to decode and discover it. The paradigm obtained from this study can be used in teaching couples in premarital counseling sessions. It can also be used to treat upset couples and those couples who want to enrich their relationship.

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The current research aimed to examine the mediation of attachment behaviors in the relationship between interaction with family of origin with marital quality and depression. The research design was inferential with path analysis method. The statistical population included all female students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz in 2019-20 among whom 200 were recruited using available sampling method. The Family-of-Origin Scale (FOS; Hovestadt, et al., 1985), Brief Accessibility, Responsiveness, and Engagement Scale (BARE; Sandberg, et al., 2012), Dyadic Adjustment Scare - Revised Form (Busby, et al., 1995), and Beckchr('39')s Depression Inventory (BDI; Beck, 1972) were used to measure the variables. The data were analyzed using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and path analysis method and SPSS-26 and AMOS-24 software. The results of the correlation analysis showed significant correlation among the variables. The goodness of fitness indices verified the model with one modification index. Furthermore, the results showed that the attachment behaviors significantly mediated the relationship between interaction with family-of-origin with depression and marital quality. According to the results, one can conclude that the type and severity of coupleschr('39') attachment behaviors have a critical contribution in affects of their interaction with family-of-origin on their depression and marital quality.