The reletionship between early maladaptive schemas and marital adjustment with mediation fear of intimacy in married people

Marital adjustment measures the quality of couple relationships. so, finding variables relative to marital adjustment can affect the development of related goals in improving quality level of couple relationships. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and marital adjustment and to study the meditational role of fear of intimacy in relationship between early maladaptive schemas and marital adjustment. The method of this research was correlation (path analysis). The population of this research was married people in kashan in 2017. 250 married people were selected by accessible sampling. The instruments of this research was Dyadic Adjustment Scale Of Spanier (DAS), Short Form Of Yaung Early Maladaptive Schemas Questionnaire (YSQ-SF) and Fear Of Intimacy Scale (FIS). Data analysed by pearson correlation with Amos 21 Gruphic and Spss 21 softwares. Results showed that there was a negative significant correlation between early maladaptive schemas and marital adjustment for men (r= -./31) and women (r= -./53). There was a positive significant correlation between total score of early maladaptine schemas and fear of intimacy for men ( r= ./43) and women ( r= ./58). Moreover there was a negative significant correlation between fear of intimacy and marital adjustment for men (r= -./78) and women (r= -./76). the, path analysis also showed that fear of intimacy is a significant mediator for the relationships between early maladaptive schemas and marital adjustment. Therefore, early maladaptive schemas and fear of intimacy have a major role in marital adjustment. Thus, attention to early maladaptive schemas and fear of intimacy variables feels in tasking with couple.