The mediating role of spiritual well-being in the relationship between self-esteem and marital adjustment in Iranian couples.

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Abstract
The present study investigates the mediating role of spiritual well-being in the relationship between self-esteem and marital adjustment in couples in Shahriar city. The statistical population of this study is married teachers.



Shahriar County, for which purpose a sample of 220 people was selected from them using a simple random sampling method and a 40-question questionnaire on spiritual well-being was administered.



Eysenck's self-esteem questionnaire and the 15-item Locke-Wallace questionnaire were distributed among them, and



The desired comparisons were completed by them. The average age of the respondents was about 36 years. The statistical method of regression correlation and Sobel test was used for data analysis;



This relationship showed that there is a weak positive relationship between spiritual well-being and marital adjustment. There is no significant relationship between spiritual well-being and self-esteem. There is also a significant but inverse relationship between self-esteem and adjustment, meaning that with an increase in the self-esteem score, the adjustment score decreases and vice versa. In addition, the effect of the spiritual well-being variable as a non-moderator in the relationship between self-esteem and marital adjustment of Iranian couples was not significant.

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