Intimate partner’s acceptance rejection, fear of intimacy and marital satisfaction among married women
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Date
2019
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UMT Lahore
Abstract
The principle goal of this study was to explore the mediating role of Fear of Intimacy in
the relationship between intimate partner’s acceptance-rejection and marital satisfaction
among 250 married women in Pakistan. Urdu version of Intimate Adult Relationship
Questionnaire (IARQ) (Rohner, 2004), Fear of Intimacy scale (FIS) (Descutner & Thelen,
1991), Couple’s Satisfaction Index (CSI) (Funk& Rogge, 2007) were administered. It was
hypothesized there would likely be a relationship between partner’s acceptance-rejection
fear of intimacy and marital satisfaction among married women. Partner’s acceptance
rejection and fear of intimacy would likely predict marital satisfaction among married
women. Fear of intimacy would likely mediate the relationship between partner’s
acceptance rejection and marital satisfaction among married women. The results of Pearson
product moment correlation showed that partner’s acceptance had significant positive
relationship with marital satisfaction, while partner’s rejection had significant negative
relationship with marital satisfaction. Moreover, partners acceptance had negative
significant association with Fear of Intimacy and Partners rejection had significant positive
association with Fear of intimacy. the mediation analysis through SEM (AMOS) revealed
that Fear of Intimacy mediated partially between partner’s acceptance rejection and marital
satisfaction.