A Model of Marital Adjustment based on Parenting Styles by Mediating the Role of Coping and Disconnection/Rejection Schema

Inanloo Ganji, Somayeh; Monirpoor, Nader; Zargham Hajebi, Majid

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Inanloo Ganji S, Monirpoor N, Zargham Hajebi M. A Model of Marital Adjustment based on Parenting Styles by Mediating the Role of Coping and Disconnection/Rejection Schema. MEJDS 2018; 8 :67-67
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A Model of Marital Adjustment based on Parenting Styles by Mediating the Role of Coping and Disconnection/Rejection Schema

Somayeh Inanloo Ganji¹

, Nader Monirpoor ^*¹

, Majid Zargham Hajebi¹

1- Ghom Azad University

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Background & Objective: One of the most critical periods of life is marriage. The family is the first founder of personality and values and intellectual criteria, which plays a vital role in determining the future and the future's lifestyle, lifestyle, ethics, health, and mental health. The issue of the relationship between parents and children has attracted the opinion of experts and educators for many years. The relationship between children and parents and other members of the family can be considered as a system or network that interacts with each other. This system, directly and indirectly, influences children's ways through different ways of parenting. Each family uses a special form of parenting in the education of their children, influenced by a variety of factors, including cultural, social, political and economic factors. Differences in the core elements of parenting (such as being warm, being involved, age-old requests, supervision, and supervision) make changes in how the child responds to the effects of parents. Parenting styles have both supportive and non-advocacy role. The purpose of this study was to provide a model of marital adjustment based on parenting styles with mediating disconnection/rejection schema and coping strategies.
Methods: The present study was a descriptive study done by correlation method. The statistical population of the present study was couples who referred to welfare counseling centers of Alborz province in 2017. According to the estimates, 570 (50% female) samples selected. The instruments were Marital Adjustment Questionnaire (Spinner, 1976) and Yang-Rae Coping Strategies Questionnaire (1994), Young Parenting Inventory (Young, 1994), and Early Maladaptive Schemas Questionnaire-Short Form (Young, 1988). The used questionnaires had good validity and reliability. Data were analyzed using linear modeling, Pearson correlation and independent t-test using SPSS-22 software.
Results: Pearson correlation results showed a positive and significant correlation between parenting, regeneration strategy, avoidance strategy and disconnection/rejection schema (p<0.01). Also, there was a positive and significant correlation between marital adjustment, regeneration strategy and parenting (p<0.01), but there was a negative correlation between marital adjustment and disconnection/rejection schema (p<0.01). The results of structured modeling of path analysis showed that parenting styles with the mediating role of avoidance, regeneration strategies and disconnection/rejection schema could explain marital adjustment (p<0.001).
Conclusion: In general, the findings revealed parenting with the mediator roles of avoidance, regeneration strategies and disconnection/rejection schema in explaining marital adjustment.

Keywords: Marital Adjustment, Coping Strategies, Parenting Style, Disconnection/Rejection Schema.

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