Prediction of marital quality based on positive and negative emotions with mediating self-compassion and cognitive flexibility in nurses of patients with COVID-19

Introduction: Nurses are the most important of human source in health system. Due to the stress of nursing, the traits of emotional and cognitive basically role playing on marital quality of nurses. Present study aimed to Predict marital quality based on positive and negative emotions with mediating self-compassion and cognitive flexibility in nurses of patients with COVID- 19. Methods: Research Method was correlation and Population was nurses of patients with COVID-19 in Isfahan university medical sciences in 2021. Using simple random sampling 138 nurses were selected and complete questionnaires of Busby & et al (1995) marital quality, Watson & et al (1988) positive and negative emotions, Raes & et al (2011) self-compassion and Dennis and Vander Wal (2010) cognitive flexibility and data were analyzed by Pearson’s correlation and hierarchy regression. Results: There is a positive and significant relationship between positive emotion, self-compassion and cognitive flexibility with marital quality (p<0.01). The results of hierarchy regression showed that self-compassion and cognitive flexibility significantly mediate on the relation of positive emotion and marital quality (p<0.01). Conclusions: Nurses with positive emotion experience pleasance emotional and affective states and enjoy from their job and family and experience high marital quality. self-compassion through experience self-focus emotions and Awareness of emotions and cognitive flexibility through increasing ability to percept positive emotion experiences explain more part of positive emotion in predicting marital quality. In other to increase marital quality of nurses, it is suggested, pay attention to positive emotion, self-compassion and cognitive flexibility in nurses, and recovery self-compassion and cognitive flexibility through counseling and training.