Investigating the linear and nonlinear relationship between cyberspace-influenced lifestyle and interpersonal forgiveness with marital adjustment in women with marital conflicts referred to psychological centers in Ahvaz

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

2 Master's degree in Personality Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz Branch

Abstract
The purpose of this research was to investigate the linear and non-linear relationship between lifestyle influenced by virtual space and interpersonal forgiveness with marital reconciliation in women with marital conflicts referring to Ahvaz psychological centers. For this purpose, through one-stage cluster sampling, 154 women with marital conflicts were selected and they were asked the questionnaires of marital compromise by Spanier (1986), lifestyle influenced by the virtual space of Yang (1988), interpersonal forgiveness by Ehtshamzadeh & et al (2009) answered. The data were analyzed using correlation coefficient and linear and non-linear analysis. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between interpersonal forgiveness and marital compromise. The linear relationship between the lifestyle affected by cyberspace and marital satisfaction was not significant, but there was a significant non-linear relationship between these two variables. Also, in the regression equation, the relationship between lifestyle affected by virtual space and marital compromise was non-linear.

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