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The Role of Relational Maintenance Behavior and Attachment Styles in Predicting Marital Commitment

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  • Mehdi Ghezelseflo
  • Rezvanoosadat Jazayeri
  • Fatemeh Bahrami
  • Rahmatollah Mohammadi Fesharaki

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Commitment to both spouse and the institution of marriage appears to be important to the success of a marriage. The aim of the present study is to examine the role of relational maintenance behavior and attachment styles in predicting marital commitment. The statistical population has been consisted of all the couples who had middle school children in Tehran city; so, 372 married people (233 women and 139 men) have been selected by multiple cluster sampling. The Relational maintenance behavior measure (RMSM), Adult attachment questionnaire (AAQ) and personal commitment subscale have been considered as the data collection tools. The results have shown that there is a significant positive relationship between assurance subscale, openness, conflict management, share task, positivity, advice and secure attachment style and marital commitment, and there is a significant negative relationship between avoidant and ambivalent attachment styles and marital commitment. Also multiple regression analysis has shown that the four subscales of relational maintenance behavior (assurance, openness, conflict management and positivity) and attachment styles (secure, avoidant and ambivalent) can predict the marital commitment (p <0.05). According to these findings, it can be concluded that relational maintenance behaviors and attachment styles affect the marital commitment and commitment to marital relationship among couples can be increased by training relationship maintenance behaviors and providing necessary trainings related to attachment styles for parents.

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  • Mehdi Ghezelseflo & Rezvanoosadat Jazayeri & Fatemeh Bahrami & Rahmatollah Mohammadi Fesharaki, 2016. "The Role of Relational Maintenance Behavior and Attachment Styles in Predicting Marital Commitment," Asian Social Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 12(9), pages 223-223, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:assjnl:v:12:y:2016:i:9:p:223
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