Development of Marital Intimacy Model Based on Couple Maintenance Strategies, Distress Tolerance with the Mediating Role of Mindfulness

Marriage is one of the most important decisions people make in life to achieve emotional needs and gain security; Because it provides the cornerstone of family relationship. One of the most important elements in providing the emotional needs of people and the durability of marriage is intimacy between couples. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of developing a model of marital intimacy based on the strategies of maintaining the couple, tolerance of distress with the mediating role of mindfulness. The research method was descriptive and correlation type, which was done in the form of path analysis. The statistical population of the present study were married women in Tehran between the ages of 24 and 55 years, of which 320 were selected using available sampling. The data collection tools used in this research were the Marital Intimacy Scale by Walker and Thompson (1983), the Couple Strategies Scale by Bass et al. (2008), the Distress Tolerance Scale by Simmons and Gaher (2005), and the short form of the Freiburg Mindfulness Questionnaire made by Wallach et al. (2006). ). The resulting data were analyzed at the descriptive level using mean and standard deviation and at the inferential level using correlation test and regression analysis and path analysis to investigate the role of mediator, using SPSS and AMOS software.The results indicated that the marital intimacy formulation model has an acceptable fit. This shows that the variables of couple maintenance strategies and distress tolerance are related to mindfulness. The relationship between mindfulness and marital intimacy is directly significant, and also the indirect effect of spouse preservation strategies and distress tolerance on marital intimacy with the mediation of mindfulness is significant (P<0.05). The results indicate that the variables of couple maintenance strategies, distress tolerance and mindfulness are important and influential in intimacy between couples.