Presenting a Structural model of Marital Commitment based on Emotional Maturity Mediating role of Intimacy and Interpersonal Cognitive Distortions

The aim of this study was to present a structural model of marital commitment based on emotional maturity mediated by intimacy and interpersonal cognitive distortions.

The research method is applied in terms of purpose, quantitative in terms of approach, cross-sectional in terms of data collection time and correlational in terms of research method. The statistical population of this study consisted of all married women who referred to Sarai Mahallat in Tehran in 1399, from which 300 people were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling. In this study, the tools of marital commitment (Adams and Jones, 1997), emotional maturity (Singh and Bahargawa, 1991), couple intimacy (Brooke and Oman, 1998) and interpersonal cognitive distortions (Hammachi and Ozturk, 2004) were used. All had acceptable credibility and reliability. SPSS-V23 and Amos-V8.8 software were used to analyze the data. Structural equation modeling was also used to answer the research hypotheses.

The results showed that the variable of emotional maturity has an indirect and significant effect on the variable of marital commitment (p <0.05). Intimacy directly affects marital commitment (p <0.05). Interpersonal cognitive distortions also directly affect marital commitment (p <0.05).

The results showed that the model has a good fit. Therefore, paying attention to the mentioned variables in prevention and designing more appropriate treatments helps researchers and therapists.