Investigating the mediating role of Dyadic Coping and Understanding and Intellectual Coordination in the relationship between Marital Attractions and Marital Quality

The aim of this research was to investigate the mediating role of dyadic coping and understanding and intellectual coordination in the relationship between marital attractions and marital quality. The research method is correlational modeling of structural equations. The statistical population included all married women active counselors in counseling centers of Isfahan in 1400 207 people were selected as a statistical sample using purposive sampling. The tools of this study included the Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale of Busby et al. (1995), the Marital Attractions Questionnaire of Salimi et al. (2020), the Dyadic Coping Inventory of Bodenmann (2000), and the Iranian Couples Intellectual Mutuality and Coordination of Javdan (2014). Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data and a bootstrap test was used to investigate the indirect effects. The results of data analysis showed that the hypothetical model of mediation of dyadic coping and understanding and intellectual coordination in the relationship between marital attractions and marital quality had a good fit with the data. In addition, the results showed that in the hypothesized model, all regression weights were statistically significant (p <0.05). Also, marital attractions, dyadic coping, and understanding and intellectual coordination can explain 64% of the variance in marital quality. The results of the present study show that in the relationship between marital attractions and marital quality, the variables of dyadic coping and understanding, and intellectual coordination play a mediating role. The findings of the present study can be used to improve the marital quality in marriage and family counseling centers.