The Mediating Role of Lifestyle in Relation between Brain - Behavioral Systems and Cognitive Emotion Regulation with Marital Satisfaction

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1 Clinical Psychology and Health, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

3 Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Marital satisfaction a large extent reflects the quality of the couple's marital relationship and the guarantor of its permanence. However, different variables can affect it. The purpose of this study was to determine the mediating role of lifestyle in the relationship between brain-behavioral systems and cognitive emotion regulation with marital satisfaction. The research method was descriptive-correlational using path analysis. The statistical population of married people in Tehran (regions 3, 6, 12, 1 in autumn and winter of 2018) that 150 people selected available. The research instruments include: Index of Marital Satisfaction Gary Wilson (2003), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire of Garnefske & Kraaij (2006) Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile of Walker (1987). The data analysis method was the Pearson correlation test and structural equation analysis using SPSS software version 25 and AMOS version 24. Pearson correlation results showed that the behavioral inhibition system had a negative and significant relationship with marital satisfaction (P < 0.01 and r= -0/31) and non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies had a positive and significant relationship with marital satisfaction (P < 0.05 and r= 0/15). Also, the results of structural equation analysis showed that behavioral activation system (P < 0.01 and β= -0/25) and adaptive strategies of cognitive emotion regulation had significant effect on marital satisfaction (P < 0.01 and β= -0/20) by the mediator of Lifestyle. To some extent, the results indicated that lifestyle played a significant mediating role in the effects of biological and psychological variables on marital satisfaction.

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Family Counseling and Psychotherapy
Volume 10, Issue 1 - Serial Number 29
February 2021
Pages 209-236

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  • Receive Date: 02 March 2020
  • Revise Date: 31 August 2020
  • Accept Date: 31 August 2020

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