The Role of Spiritual Perfectionism, Communication Skills and Cognitive Flexibility in Predicting Spouses' Sexual Quality of life

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1 Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran

2 Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.

10.22034/fcp.2024.140376.2209

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Background: Sexual Quality of life is one of the key issues in the field of sexual health, and it is also one of the important aspects of people's quality of life. Objective: The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the role of spiritual perfectionism, communication skills and cognitive flexibility in predicting Spouses' Sexual quality of life. Method: The method of descriptive research was correlation type. The statistical population of the research was all the wives of Ardabil city in 2022, and according to the limitations of the available sampling method, 220 people were selected as a sample. To collect data, tools of Spiritual Perfectionism (Besharat, 2009), Communication Skills (Queendom, 2004), Cognitive Flexibility (Dennis & Vanderwaal 2010) and Sexual Quality of life (Sadeghi & Samani, 2011) were used. Research data were analyzed by Pearson's correlation coefficient and multiple regression methods in SPSS version 18 software. Findings: The results showed that spiritual perfectionism (0.57), communication skills (0.60) and cognitive flexibility (0.55) had a significant relationship with spouses' Sexual quality of life. Also, the results of multiple regression showed that spiritual perfectionism, communication skills and cognitive flexibility in total (0.49) could predict the quality of sexual life among spouses (p<0.01). Conclusion: It can be concluded that spiritual perfectionism, communication skills and cognitive flexibility were among the variables related to the quality of spouses' sexual life. Therefore, it is suggested that psychologists and health professionals pay more attention to the role of these variables in order to improve the spouses' Sexual quality of life.
Keywords: spiritual perfectionism, communication skills, cognitive flexibility, Sexual Quality of life, spouses

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  • Receive Date: 24 December 2023
  • Revise Date: 04 December 2024
  • Accept Date: 30 August 2024

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