Developing a marital distress model based on corona anxiety and negative affect

one of the causes of marital disputes is marital distress which is common in many couples and is in fluenced by many factors including corona anxiety new fangled. The aim of this study was to develop a causal mode of the effect of corona anxiety on marital distress to investigate the mediating role of negative affect. In terms of purpose, is an applied research and in nature, is descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of research included all married people of kermanshah city in 1399. The sample was 377 married men and women. Sampling was done by volunteer sampling method and questionnaires were completed by internet survey. Screening Scale for Marital and Relationship Discord (SSMRD-R), Corona Disease Anexiety Scale (CDAS) and Positive Affect and Negative Affect (PANAS) was used to collect data. Data were analyzed in spss26 and Amos. The results of this syudy revealed that the indirect relationship between corona anxiety and negative affect (β=-0/34; P<0/001) and corona anxiety and marital distress (β=-0/43; P<0/001), was also significant through negative emotion (β=-0/57; P<0/002). The result of this study indicat that anxiety caused by the coronavirus can cause more turmoil in their sposes by affecting negative emotion in their sposes more agitation and distres in their marital relationships.Therefore ,family counselors should design targeted interventions to reduce the negative emotion of spouses during coronation.