Self-compassion and Religiosity as the Forerunner to Maintaining the Relationship between Couples

The aim of the present study was investigating Self-compassion and religiosity as the preconditions for maintaining couples' relationships. The research method was descriptive correlational. The statistical population consisted of 420 mothers whose children were taking part in two centers of intellectual development of children and teenagers in the summer of 2016. A 200-person sample was selected randomly out of the 420 people using Cochran’s formula. In this study, self-help questionnaire, religiosity and strategies for maintaining the relationship of couples were used as research tools. For data analysis, Pearson correlation and multiple linear regressions were used. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between self-compassion and religiosity with strategies for maintaining couples' relationships. Also, multivariate regression analysis showed that the subscales of self-kindness and mind-awareness of self-compassion and religiosity positively, and subscales self-judgment and isolation and outspokenness of their self-compassion variables negatively predicted strategies for maintaining relationships. Human coexistences were not able to predict the preservation of the relationship, and in total commonly predict 0/30 of the variance of relationships between the couples. According to the findings, it can be concluded that self-compassion and religiosity have an effect on promoting the strategies for maintaining couples' relationships.

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