Mediating role of emotion regulation, conflict management and sexual intimacy in the relationship between marital adjustment and personality traits

Marriage as the most important human relationship and marital life is one of the most complex life cycle transitions. The marital adjustment was first considered by Spanier as a permanent process based on the degree of agreement of the couple on important issues in the marital relationship, such as the degree of participation in the joint activities as well as emotional and physical intimacy. One of the factors of marital adjustment is paying attention to the initial relationships of the individual in the main family, which has a lasting effect on the quality and success of marital life. The aim of this study was to predict marital adjustment based on personality traits through emotion regulation, conflict management and sexual intimacy of teacher couples in Kermanshah.

This research is a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population of this study included all married teachers in Kermanshah in the period 1300-1499, from which 300 married teachers were selected by random sampling. Research information using the Marital Adjustment Scale Questionnaire (Spanier, 1976), Personality Traits Questionnaire (Costa and McCree, 1985), Emotion Difficulty Scale (Gertz and Roemer, 2004), Conflict Resolution and Sexual Intimacy from the Questionnaire subscale Enrich's marital satisfaction (Olson, 1998) was collected and analyzed using SPSS-24 and AMOS-24 software.