Marriage Stability Based on the Quality of Parental Relationship and Attachment: The Mediating Role of Narcissism, Alienation and Experience of Usness

The aim of this study was to investigate the model of marriage stability based on the quality of parental relationship and attachment with the mediating role of narcissism, alienation, and Experience of Usness. The research method was a descriptive correlation. The statistical population included all married students of the Islamic Azad University of Qom branch in 2020-2021, from which 325 people were selected by available sampling. To measure the research were used the Marital Instability Index (MII) Questionnaire of Edwards (1987), the narcissistic personality questionnaires of Amz (2006), the Marital Alliance Questionnaire (MAQ) by Cheraghi et al (2017), the Parent Relationship Quality Scale, Azrin and et al (2008), and attachment subscales and alienation of Bell subject relations questionnaire (1995). Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical methods (path analysis) using SPSS27 and Lisrel8.8 software. In this model, the quality of the parent's relationship had a direct and significant relationship with the stability of the marriage (P <0.01). And attachment had no direct and significant relationship with the stability of marriage (P>0.05). the quality of parental relationships and attachment relationships indirectly by mediating the role of alienation, the experience of usness, and narcissism predict the stability of marriage (P<0/05). The results showed that the hypothesized model has a good fit. Therefore, the research findings are based on the relationship between the quality of the parent-child relationship and attachment with the stability of marriage with the mediating role of alienation, the experience of usness, and narcissism.