Predicting Marital Intimacy Based on Attachment Styles, Early Maladaptive Schemas, and Love Styles in Married Female Students

Amin Afshin; Fatemeh Pourmehdi Ganji; Roghayeh Yaghobiyan

doi:10.61838/kman.aftj.5.1.12

Authors

Amin Afshin Master of Family Counseling, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran Author https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7350-5133
Fatemeh Pourmehdi Ganji M.A. in General Psychology, Pardisan Institute of Higher Education, Fereydunkenar, Iran Author https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6730-5587
Roghayeh Yaghobiyan M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Behshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Behshahr, Iran Corresponding Author https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3502-5075

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61838/kman.aftj.5.1.12

Keywords:

Marital intimacy, Attachment style, Early maladaptive schema, Love style

Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to predict marital intimacy based on attachment styles, early maladaptive schemas, and love styles among married female students.

Method: The research employed a descriptive correlational design and included all married female students enrolled during the second semester of the academic year 2021. Out of these, 300 individuals were selected as the sample group and were studied. Research instruments included the Young Schema Questionnaire - Short Form (YSQ-SF), Hendrick's Love Styles Questionnaire, Collins and Read's Attachment Style Questionnaire (RAAS), and Thompson and Walker's (1983) Marital Intimacy Questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data obtained from these instruments. Descriptive statistics included means and standard deviations, while multiple regression was used to examine the research hypotheses.

Findings: The regression results indicated that sacrificial love style and the impaired limits schema negatively predict marital intimacy.

Conclusions: It can be concluded that the sacrificial love style and the impaired limits schema negatively explain marital intimacy.