Sadia Qazi2025-11-262025-11-262019https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/13057The 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.en-USThesis