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Structural Relationships of Spouse Support Perception, Marital Intimacy, and Sexual Life Quality Among Pregnant Women
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Farnaz Ebadat   , Zahra Naderi nobandegani * , Fahimeh Dehghani , Seyede Hosna Gharavi |
| Yazd University , zaahra.naderi@yazd.ac.ir |
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Abstract: (56 Views) |
Introduction: Pregnancy is one of the most important periods of life for pregnant women and their husbands because at this time, physical and psychological changes usually affect different aspects of life of these people, especially the quality of their sexual life and interpersonal relationships. Therefore, The purpose of this research was to Investigation structural of relationships between spouse support perception, marital intimacy and quality of sexual life among pregnant women.
Methods: This research was a descriptive study using the correlation method.This study was conducted on pregnant women in Isfahan from 2021 to 2023 years and 191 pregnant women were selected by convenient sampling method and responded to the Support in Intimate Relationships Rating Scale (2001), The Sexual Quality of Life–Female (2005) and Personal assessment of intimacy in relationships (1981). The findings were analyzed in form of structural equation modeling and using SPSS 26 and AMOS-24 software.
Results: The findings of the study showed that the direct path of perception of spouse support to the sexual quality of life was not significant (β= -0.14, p<0.001) . while the direct path of spouse support to marital intimacy (β= 0.79, p<0.001) and the direct path of marital intimacy to sexual quality of life (β= 0.73, p<0.001) were significant. Therefore, the results of fitting analysis of the model indicated that marital intimacy could play a mediating role in the relationship between spouse support perception and sexual quality of life in pregnant women (β= 0.57, p<0.01) .
Conclusions: According to the findings, during pregnancy, spouse support perception affects the sexual quality of life due to intimate increase and perception of support when it does not lead to increase in marital intimacy cannot affect the sexual quality of life.
Keywords: spouse support perception, marital intimacy, Sexual quality of life, pregnant women.
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| Keywords: spouse support perception, marital intimacy, Sexual quality of life, pregnant women |
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Type of Study: Maternity Nursing |
Subject:
behavioral sciences
Received: 2024/11/27 | Accepted: 2025/08/31 | Published: 2025/08/1
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