Fundamentals of Mental Health

Fundamentals of Mental Health

Modeling the prediction of the level of emotional and sexual satisfaction in romantic relationships based on the attachment style to parents, considering the mediating role of guilt in romantic relationships

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Saeid Mojarad 1
Morteza Modares Gharavi 2
Shahed Masoudi 3
1 Ph.D. student in psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Bojnord branch, Bojnord, Iran.
2 Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
3 Assistant professor of psychology, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Quchan branch, Quchan, Iran.
10.22038/jfmh.2024.82392.3167
Abstract
Introduction: This research aimed to predict the level of emotional and sexual satisfaction in romantic relationships based on the attachment style to parents, considering the mediating role of guilt in romantic relationships.
 
Materials and Methods: The statistical population of the present study included all married individuals living in Mashhad, Iran, in 2023-2024. So, 400 people were selected using the multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research tools included Larson Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire (LSSQ), Marital Intimacy Scale (MIS), Hazan and Shaver Attachment Styles Questionnaire, Interpersonal Guilt Questionnaire (IGQ-67). We analyzed the data using LISREL 8.80 software and a path analysis model.
 
Results: The general indicators indicated the fitness of model. The path coefficient from secure and ambivalent attachment style to guilt was statistically significant. Also, the path coefficient from guilt to emotionality was negative and significant (P< 0.01). The results of the indirect coefficients of attachment style on emotional and sexual satisfaction with the mediation of guilt were not significant; in other words, guilt did not play a mediating role in the relationship between attachment styles and emotional and sexual satisfaction in romantic relationships.
 
Conclusion: According to the results, we suggest that couple-therapists and family counselors pay more attention to attachment styles and guilt as influencing variables to better understand the problems of couples.
Keywords
Attachment style
Emotion
Guilt
Sexual satisfaction
Romantic relationships
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Fundamentals of Mental Health
Volume 26, Issue 6
2024
Pages 391-398