Investigating the Mediating Role of Self-Differentiation and Emotion Regulation in the Relationship between Dyadic Perfectionism and Marital Satisfaction

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of self-differentiation and emotion regulation in the relationship between dyadic perfectionism and marital satisfaction. The results showed significant negative relationship between the dyadic perfectionism variable with self-differentiation and marital satisfaction, and a positive significant relationship between the dyadic perfectionism variable and emotion regulation (p < 0.01). The dyadic perfectionism variable had a negative effect on marital satisfaction indirectly through self-differentiation and a positive effect on marital satisfaction through emotion regulation.

Keywords:

• Self-differentiation
• emotion regulation
• dyadic perfectionism
• marital satisfaction

Acknowledgments

The authors want to thank all the participants who help us to do this work.

Authors’ Contributions

Moloud Sivandian (MS) and Hajar Falahzade (HF) conceived of the presented idea. MS developed the theory and performed the computations. Both authors verified the analytical methods, supervised the findings of this work. All authors discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.

Ethics Approval Statement

This study was approved by ethical committee of Tehran University.

Disclosure Statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.