marital relationship quality

Objective:   Marital relationship quality is a very important aspect in the relationship of couples and plays an important role in marital conflicts. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the mediating role of triangulation with children in the relationship between attachment style and marital relationship quality. Methods:  The research method was descriptive, which was carried out in the form of path analysis. In order to conduct this research, 180 married people were selected from the counseling centers of Ardakan city by simple random sampling and the research tools included marital relationship quality questionnaire, adult attachment style scale and triangulation questionnaire. They answered the collected data were analyzed through AMOS software. Results: The results of the research showed that ambivalent and avoidant attachment styles have a positive and significant relationship with triangulation and triangulation also has a negative and significant relationship with the marital relationship quality. Also, secure (0.567), ambivalent (-0.454)  and avoidant (-0.433) attachment style have a significant relationship with the marital relationship quality. The results of investigating indirect relationships also indicated that the mediating role of triangulation with children was significant in the relationship between avoidant and ambivalent attachment styles with marital relationship quality. Conclusion: attachment style can affect the quality of marital relationship in conflicted couples by influencing triangulation with children. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the underlying factors of psychological separation between couples.

his study sets out to examine a comparison of the effectiveness of couple therapy, based on schema therapy and affective reconstruction therapy on marital relationship quality of infertile couples. This quasi-experimental study was conducted based on a pre-test, post-test, control group design with follow-up. The statistical population of this study included all infertile couples referred to the Royan Institute for Biotechnology in Tehran in 2018-2019. The sample consisted of 30 couples who were selected via a purposeful sampling method and were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group (n=5 couples in each group). Subsequently, the first experimental group underwent schema therapy(Young, & Brown, 2005) for 12 sessions, the second experimental group received affective reconstruction therapy (Snyder, & Mitchell, 2008) during 15 sixty-minute sessions(twice a week), while the control group was placed on the waiting list and received their psychological treatment process differently from the two approaches studied in this study. The Marital Relationship Quality was conducted on three groups in all phases of pre-testing and post-testing and follow-up. A multivariate covariance analysis and a one-way covariance analysis were conducted using SPSS24 software. As evidenced by the obtained results, schema therapy and affective reconstruction therapy had a significant effect on the marital relationship quality of infertile couples (P<0.05). According to the obtained results, it seems that the use of both schema therapy and affective reconstruction therapy to improve marital relationship quality of infertile couples is effective and it is recommended to be used as a therapeutic approach.