Purpose: The purpose of this study was the relationship
between primary maladaptive schemas and emotional
regulation with marital satisfaction with the mediation of
resilience in married women.
Materials and Methods: The statistical population of the
present study was made up of all married women who referred
to the counseling centers of the Family Foundation with an
Islamic lifestyle approach in Tehran in the year 1400. The final
sample size was 401 people by calculating overestimation due
to predicting dropout of the subjects, which was used nonrandom and available method due to the wideness of the
studied population. To collect data, questionnaires of
demographic characteristics, marital satisfaction of Enrich
(1983), early maladaptive schemas of Young (1998), emotion
regulation of Garnevsky et al. (2002) and resilience of Connor
and Davidson (2003) were used. Then the resulting data were
analyzed using path analysis method by SPSS-26 and AMOS18 software.
Findings: The results showed that initial incompatible
schemas have a direct effect on marital satisfaction in women.
Adaptive and negative emotion regulation has a direct effect
on marital satisfaction in women. Resilience has a direct effect
on marital satisfaction in women. Early maladaptive schemas
have an indirect effect on marital satisfaction through the
mediation of resilience in women. Adaptive and negative
emotion regulation has an indirect effect on marital
satisfaction through the mediation of resilience in women.
(p>0.001).
Conclusion: Based on the results of the research, it can be said
that the variables of resilience, emotion regulation and initial
incompatible schemas can play an important role in marital
satisfaction and the need to pay attention to these important
variables in divorce prevention programs should be
considered.