Quarterly of Educational Measurement

Testing the Causal Model of Marital Stability based on Personality Traits with the Mediation of Attitude Styles towards Love in Married Women Referring to Counseling Centers in Tehran

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Marzieh Balali 1
Mahmoud Goudarzi 2
Farideh Dokaneifard 3

1 PhD student in Counseling, Department of family Counseling, Sa.C., Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.

2 Associate professor, Department of Family Counseling, Sa.C., Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.

3 Associate professor, Department of Counseling, Ro.C., Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22054/jem.2025.86327.3623
Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the effect of personality traits on marital stability by mediating attitude styles to love in married women referring to Tehran counseling centers. The study was of applied research type in terms of its purpose, cross-sectional data collection and analysis using correlational method and structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the study included all married women referring to Tehran counseling clinics in 1402. To determine the sample size, according to the number of observed variables and assigning a coefficient of 15 to each observed variable, 354 people were selected as the sample size. This number was selected by considering the selection criteria in a convenient manner. The data collection tools were Sternberg's Attitude to Love Questionnaire (1986), Edward et al.'s Marital Instability Questionnaire (1980), and Costa and McCrae's Personality Questionnaire (1992). The data were analyzed using structural equations. SPSS26 and Amose 23 software were used to analyze the data. The results of the study showed that personality traits have an indirect effect on marital stability through the mediation of love attitude styles in married women.

Keywords

Marital stability
personality traits
love attitude styles
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