Middle Eastern Journal of Disability Studies

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Hoseiny M, Mahmodi A, Maredpour A. Relationship of spiritual health with Marital Intimacy of Married Students: the Mediating Role of Social Welfare. MEJDS 2019; 9 :40-40
URL: http://jdisabilstud.org/article-1-1259-en.html

Background & Objective: Many factors, as well as the inability of couples to maintain a sincere marital relationship can influence sincere relationships between them. Therefore, there is a two–way relationship between these two categories, among which are the spiritual and social dimensions of the couples. Due to the impact of psychological well–being of individuals on spirituality, meaning, and existential health, and the importance of marital empathy in improving marital relationships and reducing harm to families, it important to study social well–being and its role in influencing spiritual variables that affect marital relations. According to the mentioned contents, the effect of mental–spiritual structures (spiritual health) and social (social well–being) the present study was to determine the mediating role of social welfare marital intimacy between the intellectual healths of married students was conducted.
Methods: This research was a descriptive–correlational study of the structural equation. In structural correlation research, it is possible to examine the direct and indirect relationship between research variables in the form of a hypothetical model. The statistical population in this study was married students of the universities affiliated to the Ministry of Science in Gachsaran (Islamic Azad University and Payame Noor University) who studied in the academic year 2017–2018. According to the Krejcie and Morgan table and other sampling formulas, the maximum number of samples in the correlation research has been proposed to be about 390 people, but finally, 398 were selected as an available sample. The present study has been some ethical considerations, one of the most important of which was the informed consent of sample members to participate in the study, the confidentiality of the identity of the subjects, and the optional entry and exit of the research. To collect information we used Walter and Thompson's marital intimacy scales (1983), Guyverz and Maghrimo (2003) and Pulutzin and Ellison (1983) spiritual well–being. The collected data analyzed using descriptive indexes such as mean and standard deviation and structural equation modelling using AMOS version 23 and taking into account the significance level of 0.95 and 0.99.
Results: Majority of participants were in the age range of 20–30 years old (n=123, 30.91%). Based on their last document, 42 individuals had Associate Degree (10%), 328 had Bachelor of Science (57%) and 128 had Master of Science (65%). In addition, in the descriptive findings, the mean and standard deviation of marital intimacy, social well–being and spiritual well–being were (101.42±16.61), (75.18±12.04) and (75.14±8.55) respectively. Also, in the inferential findings of this study, the overall score of spiritual well–being and it's component (religious health) had a positive and direct effect on the main dependent variable of intimacy (β=0.213 and p<0.001). The overall score of spiritual health and one of its components (religious health) had a positive and significant effect on the dependent variable of social welfare (β=0.165 and p<0.001). In addition, the direct effect of social welfare on marital intimacy was significant (β= 0.421, p<0.001). In total, the variance of marital intimacy was 0.24 through spiritual well–being and social well–being.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that spiritual health in addition to a direct effect on marital intimacy, indirectly, also influences the main aspect of spiritual well–being (religious health) by mediating social welfare on students' marital intimacy. Therefore, given the findings and theoretical and empirical background, it can be concluded that social well–being plays a critical role in the individual and marital life of students, and as the results of various studies have shown, social well–being aspects of student marital life is effective. Therefore, in family education programs and marital interventions in improving the quality of marital life of students, attention should be paid to their promotion strategies for social welfare.