The causal relationship between mental health, lifestyle, life skills and quality of marital life with mediation of communication beliefs, forgiveness and expectations before marriage

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Moosa Javdan

Psychology Department, University of hormozgan, Iran

Abstract

this study aimed to determine investigating the causal relationship between mental health, lifestyle, life skills and quality of marital life with mediation of communication beliefs, forgiveness and premarital expectations among university staff and higher education centers in Bandar Abbas. In this descriptive-correlational study, the statistical population was all the staff of universities and higher education centers of Hormozgan province. 297 male and female subjects from the universities of Hormozgan province were selected as the sample. The instruments used in this study were GHQ, Life Style Questionnaire (LSQ), Life Skills Questionnaire, LSI-FFI Short Form, Communication Beliefs (RBQ), Forgiveness Questionnaire (FFS), Previous Expectations The Marriage (MES) was the revised version of the Marriage Quality of Life Scale (RADS). The proposed model evaluation was performed using path analysis. The results indicate that marital expectations predict communication beliefs and forgiveness. The standard coefficient of the marriage expectations pathway on communication beliefs is 0.2 and the standard coefficient of the marriage expectation path for forgiveness is 0.26. Therefore, marital expectations, in addition to direct impact on quality of marital life, indirectly predict the quality of marital life through communication beliefs and forgiveness. Research variables explain 53% of variance in marital quality of life. In addition, health, life style, life skills and marital expectations variables account for 42 percent of the variance of forgiveness and 59 percent of variance in communication beliefs. Health, life style and life skills explains 36 percent of the variance of marital expectations.

Keywords

• Mental Health
• life skills
• Communication Beliefs
• forgiveness
• Quality of Marital Life

20.1001.1.22285516.1398.10.36.5.2

Main Subjects

• Psychological Models and Methods

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